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The Expertise plugin is nearing completion now. We still need to give experts a method to sign up as experts for the 3DN expertise areas (or to sign out should they no longer want to act as expert). We will be using some Wordpress specific Ajax constructs for this.
Disqus comments are no different from regular Wordpress comments. This means that checking the comments on an expertise page will be no different for Disqus comments as it is for standard Wordpress comments. Can we still find something special to do with Disqus comments?
The expertise plugin I’m writing and have been publishing about needs a selector in the admin screen to allow sending mail through SMTP or through sendmail. This article will include some javascript to do just that.
Earlier I wrote a few articles on creating the expertise plugin and how to add shortcodes to it. Today I want to add scheduled events to the plugin. When somebody posts a question to the expertise page, we could probably write a trigger that checks immediately who’s the expert for the section and send a notice in an email. However, I think it’s also nice to illustrate making a timed even that will check all expertise pages at once for new messages and send out all notifications right away.
Wordpress has a mechanism for adding ‘shortcodes’ authors can use in their articles through a plugin. In an earlier article I described how to get started with writing your own Wordpress plugins. In this article I’ll show how to add a handy shortcode to the plugin that generates code in the expert pages which allows people to register as experts in a certain area of expertise.
I’ve been thinking about a way to get people to add links to our blog on their site. A friendly way to do this is by adding an ‘expertise’ section to the site where people can go after they sign up. Here people can ask questions which will be emailed to the section maintainer(s) so they can answer any questions involving their expertise as timely as possible.
Recently I published a short article on how to create your own Facebook application and a somewhat longer article on implementing some basic code into it. Today I’ll tell you how to get some more Facebook gadgets in the application to make it more enticing for people to share it with others.
The other day I wrote a very brief article about the basics of writing a Facebook application. Today it’s time to implement a contest.
Currently I’m running a contest on the site until the end of the month to help us find a good project name for the Global Identity Management project. It’s difficult to get people to sign up and vote, even though there’s a (small) prize to be won. Let’s see if we can change this by moving our contest to Facebook itself.
The 3DN Technology Blog uses the facebook connect plugin. This plugin allows people to use their facebook credentials to create their account on the blog in such a way that you only need to be logged in on facebook in order to log on on the blog. It also allows the blog to get (and use) people’s facebook avatars. While the process of retrieving avatars works somewhat, it doesn’t work very well all the time. Additionally, not many themes seem to be aware of the plugin, most notably the facebook-like theme you’re looking at now. In this article I’ll analyze the plugin and blend it in better with the theme.
