Best Firefox plugin for Bloggers
Writing by aj@lecraic on Saturday, 29 of March , 2008 at 6:51 pm
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UPDATE : Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and Zemanta doesn’t work with this version of Wordpress. WP 2.5 was only released yesterday though.
UPDATE 2: Zemanta have just left a comment that they are working on the 2.5 issue and they are looking at the image issue also. Very impressed with their taking time to reply to various blog posts all over d’interweb about their software.
UPDATE 3: Zemanta now works with Wordpress 2.5 - just a few little glitches to work out, but amazed that a rep from Zemanta again popped back to this post with an update. There’s dedication!
Zemanta – get to know this Firefox plugin, which is one of the most useful plugins for Firefox that I have come across. Only recently released, this add on will work:
“with whichever blogging platform you are using and as you write suggest contextually relevant pictures, links and articles that you can use to enhance your post with.”
The blogging platforms supported at the moment are Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com and self hosted Wordpress installs of Version 2.0 or greater.
Once you have installed the add on in Firefox just login to your blog admin panel and go to create a post. You will notice a new panel showing the Zemanta interface. Here is what it looks like on a self hosted Wordpress blog, like this one is.
As you type, Zemanta will automatically suggest photographs and links to other articles that you can add to your post. It also creates links to specific words in the post and as if that wasn’t enough, you get tag suggestions as well. All of these can be added to your post with a simple click.
The majority of the links you see in this post were added in about 10 seconds with a few clicks.
The Gallery is a bit restrictive though as it only returns 6 possible results. If Zemanta got together with Jazz Biscuit and integrated his excellent creative commons image search tool into Zemanta, then I think Zemanta would have it all.
Photo by Mike Defiant . Adapted under a Creative Commons License
This is what appears below the line and it is a test.
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Comment by Ben
Made Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 1:38 pm
Great plugin!
Have added you to blog roll
Keep up the good work : )
~Ben
Comment by aj@lecraic
Made Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 2:29 pm
Thanks for the add Ben 
Comment by andraz
Made Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 2:51 pm
hi from zemanta!
Glad you find us useful.
We know of WP 2.5 troubles and are working a weekend shift to make if fixed ASAP. Please bear with us until then!
About images limitations: yes, many users requested ability to browse through them and we will bring this in next iteration or two!
Thank you for your review, and if you find any more problems, please mail us or send us feedback via http://getsatisfaction.com/zemanta
thanks
bye
andraž
Comment by andraz
Made Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 10:36 pm
Our front end magician Jure took care of WP 2.5 support rollout, just couple of minutes ago!
We are sorry for inconveniences in the meantime.
bye
andraž
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Made Tuesday, 1 of April , 2008 at 12:13 pm
[...] Stumbled on Ninja Words, a really fast dictionary. It puts all the others in the shade (ooh, apart from the one Zemanta is just after picking as I write this called Definr). Did I say Zemanta was good before? [...]
Comment by Rosie
Made Tuesday, 1 of April , 2008 at 2:32 pm
took your advice, tried it out, don’t like it (nothing wrong with it, just not for me) and now don’t know how to make it go away. help?
Comment by Will Knott
Made Tuesday, 1 of April , 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi Alan, were you a beta tester for it as well?
Rosie, Zemanta is a firefox plug in. Did you try looking in “Tools ->Add Ons and selecting disable then uninstall (don’t know if a restart is needed))?
Comment by aj@lecraic
Made Tuesday, 1 of April , 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hi Will, no I hadn’t heard about it until release.
Hi Rosie, what Will says ^ It’s under tools -> extensions on my version of Firefox - hard to keep up with versions of FF!
Comment by Rosie
Made Wednesday, 2 of April , 2008 at 6:49 am
míle buíochas, gents!
