Link dump: interesting reads from around the web
So last week I've started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I'll try to do these on a weekly basis from now on.
WordPress
Code Snippets and Examples
- The only proper way of adding a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog
- An article I wrote recently for Smashing Magazine: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In
- Gravity Forms PayPal integration
- 16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme
- How to Display Human Readable Post Dates in WordPress
- Control WordPress Content via Userrights or Time
- A good Beginner’s Guide to the Thematic Framework
Plugins
- BuddyPress Courseware beta; a very cool plugin for schools & other educational institutions.
- Post to post; nice plugin for creating relations between posts.
- Press This Reloaded; pretty useful if you need to, for instance, adapt the SEO title of a post.
- WPMU.org features my WordPress Salesforce CRM plugin.
- Custom Post Permalinks; I seriously think this should be in WordPress core, but as long as it's not, this'll do.
News
- Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions
- Top 10 WordPress News Blogs
- When is the Best Time to Post a Blog Post? Not enough people think about this.
SEO
- Without any work from me, my Google Analytics plugin now helps you verify your Google Webmaster Tools account.
- I'm seeing similar stuff to this: Google Webmaster Tools Link data - a case study by Dave Naylor, my favourite UK SEO.
- Want an SEO job? Check out the Daily Mail's robots.txt file
Analytics
- Qualitative Web Analytics: Heuristic Evaluations Rock! another great post by Avinash Kaushik
- The new Management API for Google Analytics rocks; check out the docs
Web design / web development
- Practical? No. Cool? Yes. Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images
- What a surprise: Steve Jobs was right, Flash fails on Android
- HTML5 for Web Designers: Book Review at Nettuts+ - I've read it too, it's amazing
- Good Help is Hard to Find is another A List Apart classic. Wonder how to apply this to my plugins...
- A very concise explanation of the viewport metatag by David B. Calhoun
- A pretty awesome example of what can be reached with CSS3 now
- I'd almost start using Typekit: Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web.
- MathML is now part of WebKit nightlies, go forth and play, all you math lovers out there!
- Delay loading of print CSS (in WordPress, but useful for everyone)
- Debugging Tools - jQuery for Designers
- This would work perfectly for WordPress plugin developers: Readme Driven Development
Online Marketing / Social media
- Daring Fireball - Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom - listen to this, seriously.
- What's this thing called Buzz that Leo talks about? :)
- Facebook Tabs: What They Are & How to Use Them - Good writeup on RWW
- Quite curious how many people will do this: German Homes Can Now Opt Out Of Google - TechCrunch
Science
- Experts are usually wrong
- Everyone looks better after you've tipped back a pint or two, and now we know why
- A nice infographic on the history of the Internet
- Freakonomics: loved the book, looking forward to the movie, check out the trailer.
- Wonder what my wife does? Read her latest paper on the Intergenerational Transmission of Convictions.
Fun
- (Fake) Lady Gaga sings about Java programming with some hilarious quotes
- Gonna have to try this on my son in about 2 years: 4 Tools for Teaching Kids to Code
- Basically, you can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, because too many other people did it before you
- You know you're a geek when you think this is funny
Lifestyle
Mac
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by themisfit on 25 August, 2010 at 06:15
Thanks for all the links, there's some great stuff in here.
by Victoria Blount on 25 August, 2010 at 10:04
A great list of helpful links, especially about social media and marketing.
by Stijn on 25 August, 2010 at 15:56
Do you use any particular tool to keep track of links you mentioned on Twitter?
by Joost de Valk on 25 August, 2010 at 15:59
bit.ly, as you can see in basically all the links above too ;)
by Niels Brinch on 25 August, 2010 at 18:25
Science -> Experts Are Usually Wrong
... doesn't sound very scientific :) but really interesting reading! Thanks.
by Theo on 25 August, 2010 at 22:13
Thanks for the useful link list !
by Mit on 26 August, 2010 at 13:14
Excellent stuff, I look forward to the weekly updates.
by Kenneth Berkley on 9 September, 2010 at 12:13
A great and very useful list of helpful links thanks for sharing with us especially the links about social media and marketing.
by Facebook client on 9 September, 2010 at 14:12
Thanks for the list, there are a number of interesting reads above.
by Swimmer on 16 September, 2010 at 17:46
This is great, thank you. If you plan to do these kind of posts on a regular basis, i would suggest two things:
1. Do the list a bit more dense, or rank the list in sections with top quality links at top and descending
2. I'd love to have a RSS feed for only these kind of posts