WebBiscuit

After almost a couple of weeks on WordPress, I’ve found a few more luxury plugins. My essentials still remain, and are described here: . Here’s an additional, “fluff” list. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, plugin penners!

• All in one favicon – See the icon of the three little biscuits on the tab of your browser? Well now you have! This plugin did that for me. Display it, I mean. It didn’t draw it (that was Dave).
• CodeProject Feeder Plugin – Inform CodeProject automatically when you write something brilliant.
• Meta SEO pack- I’m an old, classical HTML developer. I’m still convinced meta tags are quite important. This plugin allows you to set them up, which I haven’t really done yet. But there power is now there at my ever-lazy fingertips.
• Simple Google Sitemap XMLNow sitemaps ARE important to your Google ranking. This lovely plugin will sitemap and package your entire site for the little Google bots when they come knocking.

If I find any more exciting WordPress toys I’ll let you know about them. These plugins really are a geek boy’s adventure playground.

One of the main advantages of moving to WordPress is that there are a zillion and one exciting plugins out there.

Here are the three I am using on this WebBiscuit site:

• SyntaxHighligher Evolved – Great for showing snippets of code, highlighted and formatted so nicely. No complaints with it so far, but I’ve not thrown any scary code at it yet.
• Google Analyticator – Hook the site up to Google Analysis. Pretty graphs!
• AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttons – for the little share buttons on the bottom of each post. I don’t really like how it adds the icons to feeds though.

If you can think of it, there will be a plugin for it. I’ll never have to write code again.

With a tear in his eye and a pocket full of biscuits, WebBiscuit has decided to finally leave home and stride out for pastures new.   Moving onto WordPress, Biscuitechnology has unfortunately been placed on the shelf to go stale.

While designing my own blogging/CMS system was fun, moving onto an established and popular technology means I can now concentrate on writing software.  Server and website maintenance is a fun but time-chomping process.  With the valuable time saved I’ll now be able to write more code, blog and eat more biscuits.  Everyone wins.

Over the next few days, I shall be migrating/retiring content from the oringinal site.

Things I need to do

1. Find a suitable colour theme
2. Find a good wordpress editor
3. Become quite wordy
4. Port over old content
5. Redirect domains

Oh!  And here is a first for the site: you can now leave comments.  Any advice for the first points?