Miquel Camps Orteza

Update: zwordpress for firefox 3

ZWordpress is a firefox add-on that lets you manage your wordpress blog in a faster way using keyboard shortcuts and more features.

Features:

• You can switch blogs to manage multiples blogs
• Customized Shortcuts with ALT+Z+(0-9)
• Available languages:
  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • English
  • German
  • Brazilian Portuguese by Érico Oliveira
  • French by Julien Griere
  • Bulgarian by Ognian Mladenov
    
• Menu with top tasks in wordpress:
  • Blogroll (add, manage)
  • Pages (add, manage)
  • Configuration (plugins, options, theme, users)
  • Comments (comments Awaiting Moderation, spam in Akismet, manage)

Shortcut Keys:

ALT+Z+Z: View site
ALT+Z+X: Dashboard
ALT+Z+Q: Write a post
ALT+Z+A: Stats (Google Analytics)
ALT+Z+S: Earnings (Google Adsense)

Tip: when you use any shortcut keys, press ALT + Z, key up Z and the press the next letter
Press all the combination at the sime time is a bit madness you can open a lot of tabs

Switching Blogs & Custom Shortcuts:

ALT+Z+0: Switch to Default blog
ALT+Z+ (1-9): Switch to anothers blogs or open shortcuts

Use example to Switching blogs:

Configuration Example:

ALT+Z+0: www.defaultBlog.com (primary blog)
ALT+Z+1: www.anotherBlog.com (secondary blog)
ALT+Z+2: www.gmail.com (shortcut)

If your default blog is www.defaultBlog.com and do you want to Write a post in www.anotherBlog.com, you must to switch the blog:

ALT+Z+1: this switch to www.anotherBlog.com
ALT+Z+Q: write a post in the www.anotherBlog.com

If you want acces to www.gmail.com, you don’t need to switch blog, only press ALT+Z+2

How to install?

1. First, Install zwordpress firefox add-on:
   http://miquelcamps.com/upload/zwordpress.xpi
   
   
2. Restart firefox
   
3. Go to preferences Tools > Add-ons
   
4. Click to zwordpress options
   
5. Introduce your home blog, anothers blogs that you manage and shortcuts, max 10
   Examples:
   if your wordpress dashboard is like this:

   http://www.dominio.com/wp-admin/index.php

   Write:
   www.yourdomain.com
   if your blog is inside sub-folder like this:

   http://www.dominio.com/blog/wp-admin/index.php

   Write:
   www.yourdomain.com/blog
   
   Tip: If you want to make a shortcut, don’t check the case “is a blog?”, you must to check it, if you want to have multiples blogs

6. Press OK to save the configuration
7. Thats all, now you can use zwordpress !

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Did you see this alert? To solve this, you must to configure your home blog, follow the 3 step in the howto from upside
   
2. ¿How can i know in which blog i am?
   You can see it in the status bar of firefox:
   
3. How i can translate it to another languages?
   • Download the english language file:
     http://miquelcamps.com/upload/en-US.zip
   • Unzip
   • Translate to your language the files inside:
     - overlay.dtd
     - prefwindow.dtd
   • Pack this files in a ZIP
   • Send me your name, website and the translation file to gafeman[a]gmail.com
   • I will include it in the next release and i add your name and website in the credits of this add-on

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