Jessica Tompson posted a version that works well (in wordpress 2.8.4) , with instructions on how to use it:

“Add Link” Bookmarklet for wordpress.

don’t forget to put the url of your blog inside the javascript, I glanced over it…. One other caveat: if you use NoScript, it seems you have to at least temporarily allow the site you want to bookmark for the bookmarklet to work.

This took a bit of searching, so I hope posting this makes it easier to find for others. Apparently, there used to be a “Link This” bookmarklet as part of wordpress core that did what I wanted but it has been removed, unfortunately the pages that describe this old feature rank higher in search engines than the bookmarklet that works…

Cloud bookmark by Kevin Dooley

Read the discussion of why this solution over other teaser delimiters to understand why it works this way.

I got curious after reading the sneak peek announcement. I started looking for a 2.5 tag in subversion  – turns out there isn’t one yet, so I switched to trunk (‘trunk’ is a subversion naming convention for the latest version of something):

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk

And it seems to work flawlessly so far! If you want to see which tags are available in subversion, they have a subversion browser , and a how to use subversion. If you haven’t done so already, I recommend you switch your existing wordpress over to subversion. It makes (security) updates much, much easier to install. Even if you want to play on the safe side and use only stable versions (in the browser they are located under ‘tags’), I recommend you read up on how to update your wordpress with subversion, and give it a spin.

Something else that’s working well for me is keeping a separate blog (this one) for testing/experimental purposes, and a ‘main’ blog elsewhere.

At first using a template from guihackrz – but it’s not called pre-1.0-something for nothing – the template has some defects.

I’m thinking of re-creating a fluid wordpress theme based on another theme, and using for instance the The YUI Grids Builder
to create a fitting layout.

Today I got at least a header image in (examples on the Yahoo site I saw so far were text and blocks) – simply adding a style with a link to the image for the #hd element was enough.

The theme from buzzdroid seems promising. It’s missing the tags in the post body, but that can be ‘re-used’ from the out of the box kubrick theme.

Like with the firebug measurements, it does not help you with suggestions on how to make the inside of your website faster (e.g. number of database queries). However, with things like caching, you first reduce the number of page loads, so that you can later focus on the most important ‘inside’ things to improve.

I’m working on a couple of sites, and firebug has been very helpful. I especially like the javascript console, that helped me to get some difficult FireWatir tests to run – the console allows me to see what javascript works in the page, and do little experiments that I can then transfer to the test script once it works.

The only downside is that firebug does not seem to play nicely with some other firefox extensions (most notably web developer toolbar and possibly selenium), so if you try it out you might want to do so in a separate profile. I find the effort worth it though – firebug makes my try-automated integrationtest-code cycle a lot quicker…

Right now I have firebug side by side with jssh (the javascript shell needed by FireWatir), and that works well.

I stumbled across links to kryogenix. Kryogenix has some very unobtrusive ways to do sortable tables, search keyword highlighting and explorer like tree views and more. Each of them requiring only that you include a javascript file, add a few lines of CSS stylesheet code, and (for the tree view and the table), add a “class” to one table or list. They are unobtrusive, in that your site will still work if javascript is disabled, or your browser does not support everything.

A simple explanation for adding and removing elements on a web page (using document object model (DOM) and javascript): javascript tutorial – dom nodes and tree .

The reason I’m brushing up on javascript, is that I want to write integration tests with FireWatir for pages that have a TinyMCE editor in them. I did an experiment and had it working before, I threw it away accidentally and have to re-create it. Throwing something away is a good way to really learn something (although it takes more time…). So the second time, I’m taking the time to understand more about modifying pages with javascript, documenting my trail for the next time, and save the results in subversion…

plugins from the list that look attractive:

• Sidebar Widgets – reorganize the sidebar without modifying the template
• openid plugin – an open way for guests to keep their account data (such as e-mail addresses) in one place
• wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu

this list of related entry plugins contains a snippet for ultimate tag warrior that lists related posts based on their tags. Seems worth checking out.

Some plugins by Alex King that seem worth checking out :

• Articles – make a list of articles that you select outside the chronology
• Link Harvest – This plugin will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links.
• Popularity contest – This plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular