Tying Your Tubes with WordPress - My Session at WordCamp Portland

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I’m giving a session at WordCamp Portland today on “Tying Your Tubes with WordPress“, all about integrating all the difference places you probably write, read, and discuss things on the web into your WordPress blog. This post is the reference for the session, with the slides (such as they are - most of it is going to be discussion) and links to the plugins I talk about.

Here are the few slides I put together, on Google Docs. I’m working on them as we speak, but by the time the session starts, they should be more or less final:


And here are links to the plugins/tools that I’m going to talk about:

  • Alex King’s Twitter Tools - to put daily tweet digests on your blog as posts (great for archiving them, since Twitter cut off access to tweets older than a few pages).

  • K2 Theme - besides the TON of other great things it can do, it’s great for putting tweets, etc. in a sidebar using “Asides”. The K2 Support Forum is a GREAT resource if you have questions or need help.
  • How to exclude a category (say, your tweet digest) from your site’s RSS feed. Either have people subscribe to the funky URL you get from this, or if you use FeedBurner, just tell it that the funky URL is your source feed.
  • FriendFeed Comments - show comments and likes that your post gets on FriendFeed right on the post itself.
  • FriendFeed Feed Widget - for showing your last 10 or so items that end up on FriendFeed right on your blog. There are some other cool badges on that page. Similar to Twitter badges, which I don’t use (I use Twitter Tools’ daily digests instead).
  • soup.io, for publishing blended feeds. I use this for my lifestream and my linkblog.

I’ll add any other info that comes up during the session, and if you have any questions, post them in the comments! Woo hoo WordCamp Portland! :-)


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  1. 1 Josh Bancroft
    September 27, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    There’s only one lonely comment here on the post itself, in WordPress, but if you look further down the page…

  2. 2 Koichi
    September 27, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    I’m in ur room, watching ur presentations.

  3. 3 Brent Logan
    September 30, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    @Josh, I feel famous, once removed. ;-)

  4. 4 Joe Perrin
    October 2, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Hey Josh,

    Here is another FriendFeed-Comments WordPress plugin. It’s different than the one you mention in your post as it replaces the default Wordpress comment system with FriendFeed comments. It enables comment syncing from your blog to FriendFeed and vise-versa.

    Here is a video of the plugin in action:
    http://vimeo.com/1592934

    Here is where you can download the plugin:
    http://www.gurkanoluc.com/friendfeed-comments

    Thanks for an awesome presentation at WordCampdx!

  5. 5 Josh Bancroft
    October 2, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Thanks for that, Joe. I’ll check it out! :-)

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  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Josh Bancroft
    Squee! Scoble likes me! :-)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Josh Bancroft
    Hey, if you post a comment here on FriendFeed, it'll be seen during my session in 2 hours. Get to it! :-)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm ThisGuyDoug
    Saw your request on Twitter, so I'm commenting just because you asked nicely.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm A.J.
    Good luck with your demo Josh!!! - linuxaid
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Don Park
    is that favicon from android?
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Joe Perrin
    Looking forward to the session Josh
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jona Titus
    I'm so psyched for this presentation. Should be a good one.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Dan Sleezer
    I wish someone would twitter me parking space availability in Chicago........:)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Bob Stewart
    Pneumatic Tubes of NewYork City's Mail system http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=321
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Niall Connellan
    Have fun with the Demo!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Eric Florenzano
    Hello, attendees of Josh's session!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
    Josh, I hope your session goes well =)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm WorldofHiglet
    Is this a Blogger/Ob-gyn crossover Camp? Have fun!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Geoff Kleinman
    You missed the pizza, but there will be beer this afternoon, so it's not a complete loss.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm adolfo foronda
    break a leg
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Josh Bancroft
    Wow! Thanks for all the comments! You guys are awesome! :-)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Duliece
    Josh, push your glasses back up on your nose...and SMILE :-D
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Kevin Bondelli
    Wordpress is king.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Josh Haley
    No BSOD, No BSOD, No BSOD
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm ThisGuyDoug
    Only now did I finally get what Google Chrome was going for with their about:internets tubes screensaver thing.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Betsy Richter
    so glad you found parking, am waiting for you to rock the Crocs!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Shawn Smith
    Am I too late??!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm sean percival
    Look ma! im on projector!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm kathy
    Hey Josh, just saw your request.:-)
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Steve Woodward
    Hi Josh, I'm in the room watching your presentation, too!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Josh Bancroft
    Hi Steve! I saw you in the session. Thanks for coming - hope it was helpful! :-)