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Wordpress Plugin Instructions

System Requirements

  • Wordpress 1.5+
  • PHP 4.3.0+

Note: If you install the plugin and get an error about html_entity_decode(), you are running an older version of PHP and will need to upgrade.

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Writing a Structured Blogging post in Wordpress

Install

Copy the files from the archive (the .tgz or .zip) to your Wordpress directory. The files in the archive are in a set of directories that correspond to the Wordpress directories, so the whole archive can be copied directly. Make sure to copy recursively, so all the files get copied.

The target directory is the root of your Wordpress install - it should contain a lot of files named wp-xxx.php, and several directories named wp-admin, wp-content, wp-images, and so on.

On Linux, this should be something like

tar -xzf structuredblogging-wp-1.0.tgz

cd structuredblogging-wp-1.0

for f in `find . -type f`; do install -D $f /path/to/wordpress/installation/$f; done

On Windows, you should be able to copy-and-paste out of the windows explorer.

Configure

Once the files are copied, you should be able to see the plugin in your Wordpress admin screen (although it will be deactivated).

Go to your admin screen (usually /wp-admin/ in a web browser) and click on "Plugins" in the menu.

On the plugins page, you should see a "Structured Blogging" plugin. Click "Activate" on the left to turn it on. That's it!

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Plugins page

If you click on "Write" in the menu, you will now see new options for writing structured blog posts. Remember that you can deactivate it at any time.

Style and Options

By default, structured blogging uses its own stylesheet, since most themes don't support it. You can modify this stylesheet directly, or you can turn it off and add styles to your main stylesheet.

Turning the stylesheet on and off is controlled by the structured blogging options page. You can access this page from the admin screen: select "Options" from the menu, and then "Structured Blogging" from the submenu.

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Options: Structured Blogging
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