Tag Archives: WordPress
Posted on 13-Apr-2007
When I started using WordPress last year, one aspect took me a while to understand and refine: blog comments. What's more, commenting is the most obvious form of interaction on this site.
But I wanted to avoid spam. How badly I wanted to avoid any kind of junk ad, specious link, ...
Posted on 26-Mar-2007
Already a new feature! I added a random thumbnail image from my gallery to the sidebar in this site. This might seem odd, considering my preference for design that emphasizes text. But I'm aiming for a little bit of imagery, to occasionally but not disruptively vary the appearance.
You would see ...
Posted on 22-Feb-2007
After over three weeks of tweaking and testing, I've upgraded the WordPress theme for this site. As mentioned earlier, the theme is a customized variant of Scott Wallick's excellent veryplaintxt v3.0.
The theme hacking took up much of my time for the past few weeks, hence the infrequent posts. (Fortunately faster ...
Posted on 28-Jan-2007
WordPress has recently been upgraded to 2.1. I've been testing it on my local setup (thanks to MAMP) for the past few weeks, and found that upgrading from 2.0.x is rather easy. I found hitches with only a couple of my plugins, Antileech and Link Library. Even the theme used, ...
Posted on 29-Dec-2006
Is there really a good excuse to to interrupt —no, really, impede the user's experience with an involuntary, uninvited popup window blipping in front of what she's trying to view? No, I can't say there is.
Fortunately, web browsers like the Mozilla-based ones and Safari allow us to block the ones ...
Posted on 16-Dec-2006
The Bad Behavior plugin seems to block my friends who try to syndicate this site on LiveJournal. I might need to fiddle with whitelisting.
Speaking of whitelists, why oh why are comments made by registered WordPress users being held for moderation (including myself)? This is by both Akismet spam moderation and ...
Posted on 15-Dec-2006
To my dear users who are so kind as to help me test this test site: Please feel free to post feedback about comments and user registration here. Muchas gracias!
Posted on 05-Nov-2006
system;
Ahem. Actually, the issue was Apache's mod_security not allowing certain strings to be posted here. I get a 503 web server error if I sneak in a set of parenthesis () right after the word "system" and the semicolon. So to fix this, I'd need to modify the rules there ...
Posted on 05-Nov-2006
Through Michael Doig's excellent tutorial, I recently discovered MAMP, a free package which provides recent builds of Apache, MySQL and PHP as a standalone installation on Mac. It's geared towards local server development on a machine, as opposed to live sites, so it's great for testing out stuff like WordPress ...
Posted on 01-Oct-2006
[Update] I've decided to go with MarsEdit. While it has a few issues (not respecting settings for password protected or private posts in WordPress, afaict), MarsEdit does the bulk of what I need to get done for blog writing, with a simple, clear user interface.
Testing ecto 2.4.1 in rich text ...
