I’ve released version 1.1.1 of Tweet This, and upgraded everyone here. Now, the post title appears in the Twitter post box when you click any of the links around Thripp.com and DaytonaState.org.

Also, you can configure or disable Tweet This on your blog by going to Settings > Tweet This. You get the same config page that you would on your own WordPress installation, which looks like this:

This version caches URLs, so your Thripp.com blog will load faster now. You can change the URL service (several are available, including TinyURL) for your blog, restrict links …

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I’ve created a WordPress plugin called Tweet This, which lets your readers share any of your posts on Twitter by clicking an icon that looks like a bird. It’s active on all Thripp.com and DaytonaState.org blogs! Try it out with the buttons here.

I’m delighted to announce the addition of DaytonaState.org as the complement to Thripp.com! Thripp.com will now be called the Thripp.com network wherever possible, which is inclusive of the new site.

I’d been blogging at Daytona State College News (DaytonaState.org) for a while about the school, but now you can actually blog over there just like Thripp.com; you can be You.DaytonaState.org. Sign up here: daytonastate.org/wp-signup.php.

DaytonaState.org is the only online community dedicated to Daytona State College. If you’re a student, faculty member, or just love the college, join today! Your account is for life. I’ll be reading everything posted …

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I’ve been working hard on redesigning the Thripp.com comments system as of late. I don’t have a screen cap of the old one, but it was ugly. All the basic functionality was there, but the colors and dividers and layout and sorting wasn’t up to snuff with the new design. All that changes today. This is my new vision for blog commenting:

This is my gift to everyone on Thripp.com. Do you not see the beauty?

Let me tell you the features:

• The same wonderful threading interface through a modified version of WP Thread …

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If you’re like me (I hope not), you have three Thripp.com blogs: The Thripp.com Development Blog (this one), Brilliant Photography, and Daytona State College News. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to feature content from one blog on another?

That’s just the feature I’ve added today, thanks to the Ada A Blog Recent Posts Widget plugin. You can add up to two other Thripp.com blogs to your sidebar under Design > Widgets, with the widgets, Thripp.com Blog and Thripp.com Blog 2. Here’s an example of mine, with my settings:

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2008-07-30 Update: this feature has been upgraded and x.thripp.com is now the shorter th8.us. Read here for more info.

Take a look at the bottom of any thripp.com post, and you’re going to see something different:

I’ve created an elegant URL shortening service called x.thripp.com, and for every post on thripp.com, a URL is automatically generated. So you can just right-click, click Copy, and then paste a mini version of the post’s URL to Twitter, or in an email, or anywhere else. Not that thripp.com URLs are long, but they use your post’s title by default, …

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I’ve implemented the features mentioned in my entertaining title. Finally!

That’s what your sidebar looks like when you’re logged in. And that’s when you’re reading ANY blog. Very convenient, and it makes it hard to get lost. Before, there was just Site Admin and Log Out, but this is so much cooler. Clicking “Subscribe” adds the blog you’re reading to your subscribed list, which you can read in your admin panel. If you’re subscribed, the link changes to “Unsubscribe” (should you want to do that).

When you’re in your administrative section, you see this under “Dashboard”:…

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I added integration with Facebook Photos to the write post screen! Now, when you go to write a post in the administrative area, you’ll see a new button under “Add media”:

Click the “f” to add photos from your Facebook account. First, you have to set it up…

Click the first button, log in to Facebook in the window that pops up, and then you’ll get a window like this:

I checked “Keep me logged in,” …

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I added the WPMU User Comment Tracking and Display plugin, which from now on will keep a log of the comments you make. You can see them in the admin page under Dashboard > My Comments. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), it shows just the latest three comments from the post you commented on, so it isn’t a true comments history. At least you’ll know you commented there, so you can click the title of the post and then use your web browser’s Find function to find your user name in the comments list. …

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I’d noticed recently that the LiveJournal cross-posting function stopped working since I upgraded to Wordpress MU 2.5.1. I upgraded to version 2.0.5 of Evan Broder’s plugin, and it’s working again. It works great; it automatically posts this blog’s entries to rxtdev.livejournal.com, for example. My cousin, JT, is using it too.

Whenever you make a post, it gets posted to your LiveJournal account, and whenever you edit or delete that post later, the updates are made at LiveJournal behind the scenes without you having to do anything. You can do this on your thripp.com blog too; from the administrative …

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