Archive for the ‘ Wordpress ’ Category
Wordpress 2.3 was recently released and I happened to see the announcement just a couple hours after the release. I quickly upgraded and am enjoying the new version quite a bit. Most of my enjoyment is coming from playing with my new theme. Having a theme with two widget enabled columns is just great (for [ READ MORE ]
I created my first and second real Wordpress themes this weekend. I started yesterday making one for Rachel and since it was pretty easy I decided to make a similar one for myself. Rachel decided she wanted a three column layout, so I figured I would tryout YUI Grids for this project. Using the Grids CSS [ READ MORE ]
I saw today that Wordpress 2.2 was released. I went ahead and upgraded (in about 1 minute) and instantly noticed some changes to my sidebar. Version 2.2 somehow enables widgets across all themes or something. I’m not sure how they did it, but it is very cool. [ READ MORE ]
I installed the Wordpress Stats plugin last week and hadn’t seen any data. For the first couple days I wasn’t too surprised, I just figured no one was coming to my site, but after a full week I started to get curious. After a little bit of looking at the code and reading the FAQ, [ READ MORE ]
I decided I wanted to start using FeedBurner on my blog to see how many readers I actually have. One of the things I didn’t want to have to do, though, was to make both of my readers switch the URL of my feed, so I set up this simple mod_rewrite directive in my main [ READ MORE ]
My buddy (Showtime) Shane promised he was going to install Wordpress and start a new blog this weekend. It’s now Monday morning with one day left in this President’s Day weekend and no blog yet. To help him out and anyone else that might be interested I am going to walk through the easiest way [ READ MORE ]
I got a comment on a post from a few months ago this morning for a guy named Peet. Typo apparently has changed a bit since I stopped using it and Peet fixed it up and was able to get his site transferred to Wordpress. Anyways, here’s Peet’s new version: migrate.zip. [ READ MORE ]
I think all three people that read this site contacted me to tell me that my blog wasn't showing the guts of my post, just the titles. Well, you will be happy to know that I got the problem fixed (obviously). For those that care, the problem came from a bad Markdown implementation. I got the [ READ MORE ]
If you are reading this, my blog isn’t broken anymore, but I did an ’svn up’ and it broke the site. [ READ MORE ]
I finally realized that I had to activate the markdown plugin in Wordpress in order to actually use Markdown. [ READ MORE ]