Wednesday, February 20, 2008
For those interested in this sort of thing, I have enabled OpenID commenting on the site. The power of OpenID is that is a single sign-on system, so all you need is one OpenID that you can use to login anywhere that supports the standard. There are a multitude of organizations providing free OpenIDs, including [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
WordPress 2.3 introduced a feature called Canonical URLs. Its purpose is noble - to ensure that your site's content is only available at one URL. The creator of this feature, Mark Jaquith, has written a thorough explanation of the concept, which you should read if you are confused yet still interested.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Despite claims for people at work that I have abandoned this site, there has been a quite of bit of work going on in the background. For example, just this morning, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.
While the actual upgrade went swimmingly, I ran into some issues involving plugins. For example, the tags plugin I was [...]
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For a relatively long time (more than a year), this blog used a modified version of the Kubrick theme that ships with WordPress. Since I had invested a substantial amount hacking on the fixed-width theme to make it fluid[1], I was hesitant to switch, especially since the majority of the themes I saw were going [...]
With the help of this excellent page listing the differences between WordPress 2.0 and WordPress 2.0.1, I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.1. It was relatively uneventful, so there is not much more to report.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Upgrading to WordPress 2.0 was not as crazy as I expected, thankfully.
Friday, December 23, 2005
If you have been wondering why certain protected posts just straight-up disappeared from this site and the RSS feed, the reason is that I started using the ViewLevel plugin to protect posts. Since I removed the passwords that were formerly protecting the posts, if anything happens to the plugin (i.e. it suddenly stops working), the [...]
Friday, September 30, 2005
Another entry about the difficulties of writing for different sets of people.
Update early, update often, update visibly.
After some careful consideration, I decided to switch web hosts last night. It took a number of hours for the DNS settings to propagate, during which time I played around with the Wikipedia account I created last August but forgot about and got a few hours of troubled sleep.
When I woke up and transferred my [...]
I updated the Creative Commons license governing the use of this blog from the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license to the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license. I feel sort of guilty about using such a restrictive license, but I figure anyone who wants to use the contents of one of my entries in a commercial enterprise can jump through [...]
A cool thing about WordPress is that each category (you can see a list of them on the main page, in the sidebar at the right) has its own RSS feed, accessible by adding "/rss/" to its URL (For RSS 2.0 feeds, add "/rss2/". For Atom feeds, add "/atom/".). So if you were only interested [...]
After looking at a couple of WordPress plugins that implement Techorati tagging, I decided to go with Ben O'Neil's Technorati Tags plugin. I did not like some of the default settings, so I made some modifications, the most notable of which was adding a link to the Technorati Tags help page before the tags' listing. [...]
One year ago today, I switched to WordPress from Movable Type. At the time, I was attracted by three things:
WordPress' GPL license seemed increasingly attractive as Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type (who currently owns LiveJournal) seemed to be constricting users' rights in order to increase revenue.
At the time of my switch, the version [...]
I replaced wp-comments-post.php, which forced previews of comments in an attempt to get rid of comment spam with two Wordpress plugins: Brian's Threaded Comments and Live Preview for Comments. If I see a uptick in spam comments (I have not received any in the past few months), I might switch to this Comment Validation plugin [...]
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The RSS feeds are not working, but hopefully this post will fix it. I will probably have to make a comment to fix the comment feed. This is annoying, but life could be worse, I guess.
UPDATE: Uploaded a patch from the bug page previously linked to which should provide a more permanent solution.
I had to completely reinstall WordPress (which took less than half an hour in total), but everything works now. If you notice anything broken, feel free to leave a comment.
I could have (and probably should have) spent the last two hours or so doing homework, but I wasted it away making changes here. Among the things that now work:
The sidebar (that list of links on the right) no longer appears below the footer (that blue bar on the bottom). This was only apparent if [...]
Friday, February 18, 2005
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5. Since I had already done of the hard work when I switched to a beta build late last month, the upgrade was ridiculously easy.
So I decided to make it harder, by moving the blog into the root directory of the site. As a result, you can now access the blog at [...]
To celebrate the end of final exams (at least for me), I upgraded to a nightly build of Wordpress. I do not really like everything about this Kubrick theme (non-liquid layout, the title header is too big), so expect some more minor changes.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
At least in terms of not being sick anymore. I would have posted on Thursday (which was both the day immediately after I posted about being sick, and the day I began to feel better), but I was busy. Some minor updates, changes, errata:
This blog now has a Creative Commons license, albeit a restrictive one.
This [...]
Saturday, October 9, 2004
I am currently upgrading from Wordpress 1.3 alpha to Wordpress 1.2.1. Bear with me.
UPDATE: Done, I think.
As you may have noticed, I have made improvements to the "commenting experience" at this blog. The first is the "Recent Comments" section, which can currently be seen on the sidebar at your right. This was simple copy and pasting from the WordPress Wiki entry "Recent Comments."
The other improvement can be seen on the individual [...]
While most normal people were asleep, I was migrating the blog to WordPress. The new structure is going to take some getting used to, though. It took me a long time, but I believe that all of the old MovableType links should work, thanks to some mod_rewrite magic.
Either way, I am going to change some [...]