Category Archives: Wordpress

Upgraded to WordPress 2.7

Posted on December 11, 2008 by admin

As is usual, I chose this site as the first guinea pig, and it is now upgraded. So far everything looks good. I follow the beta test chatter, and usually try to install the release candidates somewhere and play with … Continue reading →

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New Energion Publications Blog Theme

Posted on October 9, 2008 by admin

Of course, it’s on the Energion Publications Announcements blog. I set out to brighten up our theme and clean it up a bit.  The new theme adjusts to browser width and also has the same header and links that we … Continue reading →

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New Blog – Tom Hunt Residential Designs News and Views

Posted on July 23, 2008 by admin

I set up a blog on the Tom E. Hunt Residential Designs site, which they plan to use to make announcements regarding their business, feature currently popular or especially interesting plans, and discuss trends in the home design business. I … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.6

Posted on July 15, 2008 by admin

Thus far it looks seamless and straightforward. I simply followed the directions! I’ll be upgrading some more difficult installations where I’ll be trying out some of the picture handling, and I’ll post more if it seems useful.

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WordPress.com Stats for your WordPress Blog

Posted on July 1, 2008 by admin

. . . even if it’s hosted elsewhere. You can find a blog post on this here, and the download for the plugin here. I’ve installed this on my non-commercial blogs (that obviously excludes this one), and thus far it … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.6 Beta

Posted on June 24, 2008 by admin

Update: It obviously worked.  Simple Tags was the only plugin to complain so far. WordPress has gone to 2.6 beta, and I’m trying it here.  Despite the dangers of beta software, I usually go ahead and work with it.  Please … Continue reading →

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UTF8 Conversion under WordPress 2.5

Posted on June 21, 2008 by admin

I just converted a database for UTF8 using the UTF8 Database Converter.  It provides dire warnings about using it for versions after 2.2, but having made a complete backup, I decided to try it anyhow.  It worked beautifully.  The database … Continue reading →

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Testing a new Verification Plugin

Posted on May 20, 2008 by admin

I have just installed Are You for Real?, a plugin by Chris Poirier that tries to verify that a real human is making comments.  At the same time I’m relaxing ordinary comment moderation to the point where it will generally … Continue reading →

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Improving Your Blog

Posted on May 13, 2008 by admin

This is an interesting place to post this, as I don’t really do my best work on this blog.  Here I simply put information that is useful to my clients and a few other technical things that interest me.  But … Continue reading →

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Tools for Using Twitter

Posted on April 26, 2008 by admin

There’s a good list here for WordPress.

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