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! :-)

  • http://ourpdx.net Our PDX Network

    you can: automatically backup your word press database, upgrade WordPress with one click,  support Open ID, switch your theme while you work (and not have the new theme go public), easily support video.You can use your blog as the hub to unify all your social networking programs(aka tubes) including Friendfeed, Twitter and let your blog feed your networks. If you can’t decide on a theme to start with for your blog, K2 is a good place to start. The Firefox Web Development Toolbar

  • http://www.wordcampportland.org/2008/09/presentation-links-roundup/ WordCamp Portland » September 27, 2008 • Cubespace

    Justin Kistner – WordPress Ecosystems – slides, notes, links Chris O’Rourke – 10 Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog Pop – slides, links, video Josh Bancroft – Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPress -slides, linksKelly Guimont – Considerations When Choosing A Theme – video (Outline/notes to come) Dane Hesseldahl – Extend Your Blog with Custom Plug-In Development – slides, source code Eric Amundson – Design

  • http://wordcamp.info/2008/10/05/wordcamp-portland-2008-recap/ The WordCamp Report

    of the event speakers and presentations including: Betsy Richter – From Concept to Execution in Eight Days Justin Kistner – WordPress Ecosystems Chris O’Rourke – 10 Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog PopJosh Bancroft – Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPressKelly Guimont – Considerations When Choosing A Theme – video Dane Hesseldahl – Extend Your Blog with Custom Plug-In Development Eric Amundson – Design & Debug WordPress Themes Using Free Tools Marshall Kirkpatrick – Feed Your Blog with RSS

  • http://www.agaveweb.com/blog/2008/10/04/follow-me/ Gwyn’s Blog

    Tying your tubes

  • http://www.criticalgames.com/nabil/wander/personal/liveblogging-wordcamp-portland Critical Games

    s a lot of overlap between them (though not always). – Something to think about is use “asides” for content from other sources, such as Twitter. – Most of this information is on Josh’s site:Tying Your Tubes with WordPress- It’s kind of telling that when he asked who here weren’t on twitter, THREE people raised their hands… out of about 50. – Showing a social web profile, FriendFeed, lets people go to one spot to see where you are wherever.

  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

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

  • http://www.tofugu.com Koichi

    I’m in ur room, watching ur presentations.

  • http://blogan.net Brent Logan

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

  • http://www.joeperrin.com Joe Perrin

    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!

  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

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