I’m a WordPress Convert

Posted on 04 Dec 2008 in Internet

I'm very pleased with WordPress - getting comfortable with tinkering with code, databases and creating plugins. I'm working on a plugin at the moment that integrates the InstaMapper API into a widget and also a full screen tracks viewer - I'll release a beta soon. Loving the new Reverse Geocoding feature in the Google Maps API where you pass co-ordinates and return an address/locality name - which feeds nicely into my tracks viewer menus.

Absolutely love the Lifestream plugin which is now sucking in my public activity from Digg, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm, Twitter and Vimeo - creating a neat daily digest of what I've been up to, great for people not on Facebook where all this normally appears in the News Feed.

Also picked up a commercial plugin, AutoBlogged to pull in richer feeds of certain content, e.g. My Facebook Posted Items, and automatically blog it. The Akismet comment spam web service is genius, it's already blocked hundreds of spam comments and trackbacks without me having to lift a finger. Lots of outbound RSS feed options too, for example tagging a post "fbpost" sends a blog post to Facebook.

WordPress for iPhone is a little buggy, but still does a fine job. All in all really happy with the level of integration between WordPress and the various sites, tools and gadgets I use each day.

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