Whether or not you are a fan of WordPress, this weeks’ Blogging Challenge should be great fun. This week, I’m sending you on a treasure hunt.
Search the web for the best articles on the following WordPress-related topics.
Below is a list of 100 WordPress-related topics. Your blogging challenge is to either post your answers here or on your blog matching an article to each topic. You will need to search the Internet for the articles. Not just any article will do. They must meet the following criteria.
- The article must be directly related and applicable to WordPress. For example, if the treasure hunt topic is “Ajax” then the article must be about using Ajax with WordPress.
- The article must describe, answer, and provide a solution to the topic.
- “You” are not the author of the article. Find something someone else has written about the topic.
- The article must have the majority of its content focused on the topic, not one among 40 topics covered.
- One article per treasure item. If you find more than one, pick what you think is the “best” one.
- An article can only appear on your list once. You cannot use the same article on more than one treasure item on the list. Got it?
- The writing must be clear and easy to read and understand.
- If you strike out on the web in general, then you may search the WordPress Codex and/or WordPress Support Forums or WordPress.com Support Forums, but only as a last resort.
- Copy the list below and paste it in a blog post on your blog with as many treasure hunt items listed with a related article links as you can find. Send a trackback or post the link to your WordPress Treasure Hunt list here when you’re done, so we can visit and see what treasures you have unburied.
The WordPress-related treasure hunt topics are:
- 404
- accessibility
- ajax
- Akismet
- API
- asides
- author
- bad behavior
- blogroll
- bookmarklets
- boren
- botd
- canvas
- category feeds
- comment moderation
- comment spam
- comments
- css
- custom fields
- dashboard
- design a WordPress Theme from scratch
- difference between WordPress and WordPress.com
- donncha
- drmike
- favorite WordPress Plugins list
- feeds
- ftp
- functions
- gallery
- google sitemap
- hAtom
- hierarchy
- hooks
- how to choose a WordPress Theme
- htaccess
- if single()
- installing wordpress
- ioerror
- jaquith
- javascript
- Kiwi
- LaTeX
- localization
- loop
- matt
- meta
- mingus
- moBlogging
- moving WordPress
- mu
- mysql
- nofollow
- permalinks
- photoblog
- ping
- podcasts
- polls
- post slug
- query_posts
- quicktag
- refresh
- rel
- sandbox
- search
- semantic
- semantics
- seo
- separating trackbacks from comments
- sidebar accessories
- sidebar
- skelton
- smilies
- social bookmarking
- spam karma
- static front page
- strayhorn
- tags
- Technorati
- text control
- text editors
- the_excerpt()
- theme lists
- trackback
- using character entities in WordPress
- utw
- validate
- vblogging
- visual anatomy
- winkler
- wordpress for beginners
- WordPress Widgets
- wordpress.com
- wp_list_pages()
- wp-cache
- wpdb Class
- write code in WordPress posts
- writing plugins
- WYSIWYG
- XFN
- XML-RPC
Not everyone will find the same articles for the same WordPress treasures, but some might. You might find more than one article referencing a treasure on this list, but remember choose only one for each item. Pick the best one you find. Who knows what goodies may be found in the treasure trove of WordPress-related tips, tricks, techniques, and topics.
I’ll be monitoring comments fairly closely for the next two weeks so if you post a link to your list here and it doesn’t show up, be patient. I’ll get to it. Don’t post twice. If you write down your WordPress-related treasure hunt finds on your blog, make sure a trackback appears here or post a link to your post so we can check out what WordPress treasures you’ve found.
Are you ready? This one is harder than it looks. Get set. Go hunt!
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15 Comments
Let us count roughly ten minutes per topic: flipping through 2 to 3 pages of technorati / wordpress codex / google searches, then scanning those articles that appear as mildly relevant, then picking the ‘best one’ (if we are lucky to find such a ‘best one’). I am not counting the many half-hours spent on Wikipedia just to get the slightest idea on what most topics are all about.
10 minutes x 100 = 17 hours = 2 full work days.
My blogging ass is beginning to ache
Can we split the work between all those who want to take the challenge ?
I’m all for teamwork!
But if you really do the math, then you need to take into consideration that some people are familiar with some of these terms and so they “know” their favorite articles to match those terms. That’s seconds of work. You have to subtract out the familiarity factor.
And then there is the first time find, where the “best” article is at the top of the search results, narrowing down the time to 1-3 minutes to decide…
And the fun factor makes the time go faster, right?
Quite a task
But I think I’m up for it, if I can find the time. Is it okay to select some of my own articles for some of the topics?
See Rule Number 3.
Whoops
We all know you’ve done brilliant articles about WordPress. Now it’s time for you to check out what other people have been doing. Ah, that’s the challenging part. hee hee.
I too would surely give this a try this weekend and come up with treasure. Pirate ready to take up this job.
Sounds like a fun contest, if I can find the time. That’s quite a list.
I managed to finish them all off. Here is a tip that helped me considerably, use this search phrase in google: wordpress [search keywords] -site:wordpress.org -site:codex.wordpress.org. It finds the best pages that match your keyword query and that don’t exist in the support forums or codex. cheers!
First in! Wow! And a great tip. See, I was hoping this would test search engine skills and expertise.
So, what did you learn by doing this, Maxpower?
I was surprised when my Post on Attackr.com was picked up by MaxPower.ca and now I find it actually fit a category on your challenge!
#22 on maxpower.ca’s post
Glad you got found in the WordPress Treasure Hunt Challenge. Now it’s your turn! Start your treasure hunt engines!
Besides the specifics of many of the posts I linked to, in general what MaxPower learned was this:
the codex and support forums are a great resource for good, solid information on WordPress (duh)
the blogosphere is great for the latest information, but also has a lot of redundant or no longer accurate information
considering that there are millions of WordPress sites on the Internet, there are surprisingly very few good websites that disuss using WordPress above the beginner level
I guess I am the only challenger. Boo urns I say!
That is awesome idea. Trust me to find it when it’s way too late. I just wanted to say that I love treasure hunts: I did one at the local university last year, and have popped up the hunt and the answer over on me blog.
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