‘tips & tricks’

There are a few file types that Wordpress doesn’t handle well. Two of these are PDF (adobe Portable Document Format) and PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint).
However, with PDF and PPT viewer, you can now embed these file-types into your pages and posts!
Note: I’ve written about BlogThing by Automagic Software. This will embed PDF, video and many other [...]

Thanks to the wonderful people at Stylish Design, anyone who has Photoshop CS2 or up, together with some graphic design skills, can create really nice, convincing-looking 3d eBook and box images.
Click to open the Stylish Design eBook page
It’s a really nice solution and looks great! The only thing to remember is to save the file [...]

Page Meta is a lightweight SEO plugin for Wordpress that gives you control over the important metatags in each page:

Title – the page title, displayed at the top of your browser window and which should contain your top keywords, not just page title and site name
Description – the page description, displayed in search results, which [...]

If you’ve got a home network and want to keep your addressbooks synchronised, you have a bit of a problem.
Sure, you can get a subscription to Mobile Me (formerly .mac) and have the details stored online, or even transfer everything across to a Google addressbook with your google mail account.
I didn’t want any of these; [...]

We like the WP to top plugin for its simplicity and the fact you can customise it for your needs.
The plugin is simple: when you scroll down the page, it will appear (left or right) for you to click and return to the top of the page.
As far as customisation is concerned, you can choose [...]

Google Webmaster Help
Google provides a number of free services for users of the web (and by default, users of their search engine. Bing is a newcomer to the market and only time shall tell how popular it gets).

Google Webmaster Help
The Google Webmaster help gives answers to questions that you probably haven’t even thought of yet, [...]

Onyx is a neat tool for Mac users which will go through the system and clean it up. It’s a bit like a good fast for your body, getting rid of the things that hang around to make your mac clean and healthy.
You should ALWAYS run a backup before you do anything like this though!
Download [...]

I’m using the WP Follow-Me badge on the site now, which makes it easier for people to follow the goings-on here at Tall Poppy Digital!
I chose it because it’s simple. It just sits there on the right hand side (but can be configured to appear on the left) and visitors who want to follow can [...]

BlogThing is blogging software you can use from your mac to add pages or posts to your Wordpress site (it supports a number of other blog software as well, anything that supports XML-RPC in fact).
The powerful features include:

Drag and drop filetypes, complete with creation of thumbnail images
Fully-fledged help
Embedding video (up to 7MB if you’re on [...]

I and my good friends once owned a domain. It was a nifty domain (think it cost us $30US for a year at the time). It was for a street magazine I’d conceived on the flight back to OZ from the UK.
We let it go. There simply wasn’t the time to keep the magazine going [...]