Tag Archives: WordPress
WordPress I love you (but you’re bringing me down)
Well, that was scary. Sometime yesterday, something very strange happened to this blog. At first, all was well for the visitor; the site was readable, comments were doing what comments ought to do, but I couldn’t log in to the … more…
passing weirdness
It’s come to my notice that something is wrong with the blog: links to posts, comments, archives and so forth are all non-functional at present, and may have been the case for a while. Normal services will be resumed once … more…
aside: the feed(s)
A couple of days ago I changed the main RSS feed for enthusiasm from summary to full text. I’m now seeing a plug-in which will offer a choice of feeds, which sounds like it might be a good thing to … more…
links for 2007-10-24: wordpress hackery, Deadnauts
scompt.com ยป Adding custom columns to the WordPress manage posts screen Tutorial for adding columns to post management page in WordPress admin (tags: wordpress, dev, plugin) Deadnauts, by Ted Kosmatka A great short story of space travel, though not the … more…
Gravatars, OpenID
Prompted by Automattic’s absorption of Gravatar, and consequently Matt’s implementation of Gravatars on his blog, I’ve incorporated the code to display gravatars on this blog here. You will find the relevant code to do similarly (if you’re running WordPress) here. … more…
upgraded
Okay then: we’re now running on WordPress 2.3. It wasn’t quite the painless procedure that upgrading has been in the past, but as far as I can make out, everything is working, and the tag cloud is back — albeit … more…
The Tale of The Rights to The Picture of The Green Man, and a quiet word or two about Technorati
This image — fine as it is — nevertheless is posted here because there is a most interesting story hangs upon it. The story belongs to the maker of the image, and it’s on onionbagblog. Definitely read it, and while … more…
WP Plugin: Kottke Style Archives
Alistair Lattimore‘s gone and written a plugin that generates an archive list in the style that Jason Kottke uses at Kottke.org — which is tantalisingly close to the style that I’ve been using here. My archive panel is hard coded, … more…
rolling out the new theme
Well there goes another night’s sleep. Here is the new theme, a result of many long hours work in the background, instead of whatever else I might have been doing with my time (sleeping, eating, you know the kind of … more…