a personal appeal from…

if you’ve visited wikipedia recently you’ve noticed those top-of-the-page banners featuring Jimmy Wales or a rotating group of wikipedia contributors asking for financial support for teh wiki. all these appeals begin with the words a personal appeal from and you’re supposed to click through and give, give, give.

I havent’ clicked through. but I did find this personal appeal generator elsewhere:

Steven Elizabeth wants you to kindly STFU

note: for some reason the picture didn’t show when I copied the code from the generator site.  I had to screengrab the page and crop it with MSPaint.

using audio files from elsewhere in WP posts

if your music files are hosted elsewhere, be your own server, *cough*TypePad*cough*, or if you just grab a music link and would like to use in it a WordPress post, here’s how:

basically all you do is open an audio tag –

Download: then%20insert%20the%20music%20file%20link%20location%20-%20audio%20musicfilelinklocation%20and%20close%20the%20tag%20-%20audio%20musicfilelinklocation

with this result

Download: musicfilelinklocation

found in this WP Support article: http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/

thanks to WP for providing this option. there is also the option of paying $35/year to host music files in WP, or going to box.net, or…

Subscriptions in WordPress and managing subscriptions

first the graphic version (click to embiggen)

and the long wordy one,

there is a easier way.   on the top of the page there is a dark gray bar – look for “Subscribe” and click on “Subscribe to blog”.  this is available on any WP blog, I think.
on the same bar there is “My Subscriptions” where you can click to either read your subscriptions, and also “Manage my Subscriptions” – the default is to send an email when there is a post, but you can change it to no emails, or emails from some of your subscriptions only.

I am really liking the ‘blog stats’ in WP

so much data in the Blog Stats – not only pageview counts, but ‘where from’, ‘where to’, and ”Search Engine terms’, which today brought this little gem:

"poem for someone who likes bourbon"

I felt bad their search wasn’t successful, so I wrote a bourbon-ku

Haiku for someone who likes bourbon

A half-bottle of
Maker’s Mark you forgot was
In your desk drawer