I’ve asked, but no reply so far on adding the post via e-mail plug-in to the notebooks.dataone.org wordpress installation.
I may need to add some details about how it might be done, to make the case.
That means two options are available to me at the moment:
1) explore “re-blogging” from my personal wordpress (which I don’t really think makes sense)
2) copy and paste formatted content from one blog to the other.
“Re-blogging” would be the easiest option, but I’m not sure how to do that. ย From my work on the SEPARC wordpress blog, I know it is possible to “reblog” as certain wordpress.com entries are “reblogged” by related orgs.
For example:
http://snaketalk.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/59/
Is a “reblogged” version of the original:
Which is available here:
So clearly it is possible.
Not my favorite option.
Here’s what google suggested for me:
How to reblog on wordpress.com:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/we-all-like-to-reblog/
The problem is, notebooks.dataone.org is not wordpress.com (as discussed at length here:ย http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/)
So: I’ve changed the search to:
how to reblog on wordpress site:wordpress.org
Best bet looks like:
http://wordpress.org/tags/reblog
This answer from w months ago suggests:
there is no REBLOG function on self-hosted WordPress.ORG sites. That only applies to WordPress.COM sites.
So, I do not think that “reblog” will be an option for me – I suspect it would require a customized plug-in.
One other option I noticed “PressThis” bookmarklet.
Let’s see if that might be an option.
From here:ย https://notebooks.dataone.org/wp-admin/tools.php
I can see the “press this” bookmarklet.
Installing that.
Now loading a personal blog entry I want to “press.”
Test 4: Network Visualization with NESCENT GeoPhyloBuilder
I highlighted the text that I want to press (essentially the text of the blog entry) and the wordpress bookmarklet pulled in the content, used the title, and added something of a citation “Test 4: Network Visualization with NESCENT GeoPhyloBuilder | TannerJessel.info.”
This is not the ideal solution, but I think it could work.
And, I think it leaves less room for “transcription error” than the other approaches I’ve described (e.g., manually downloading e-mail).
However I do regret that it involves an extra step. For now, perhaps I can just use this as a “case study” for how entries might be posted. ย I can go through and assign tags later – I don’t see it as critical that they match whatever tags I generate on the source material (my personal e-portfolio site, tannerjessel.info).
What is critical is that the content from the e-mail to the personal blog to the research notebook is not changed.
Also, I am curious to see how the images might be reblogged.
In a moment, I will publish the “reblogged” content and link to it here.
Test 4: Network Visualization with NESCENT GeoPhyloBuilder | TannerJessel.info
One gripe: hyperlinks are not preserved.
The original blog entry from my e-portfolio site:
Test 4: Network Visualization with NESCENT GeoPhyloBuilder
However, I do not know that hyperlinks were ever generated via e-mail in the original post.
Note: I would like to test this out e.g., have an e-mail that contains hyperlinks; send them to the personal blog; determine if the hyperlinks are preserved.
These types of minutae can be frustrating but I think it’s worth being able to easily re-trace my steps as research progresses, and also so that others can re-trace steps and perhaps see things I might have missed.
