Twitter announced their own Tweet Button and have provided a page for creating a button on your web site. You enter some info and you get the HTML code to add. Extending WordPress has always been easy. You can add what you want via a plugin, or you can put the functionality into your theme’s [...]
Have I mentioned how easy it is to use WordPress child themes? I can’t stress it enough, never modify a WordPress theme. Create a child theme instead. I just converted a blog from an old outdated Cutline theme to a SVN copy of Coraline. This is the WordPress.COM replacement for the Cutline theme. The old [...]
Do I get an Android phone or an iPhone 4? I’m in no rush to get a new phone but I do periodically suffer from phone envy. I am a fan of easy-to-use technology. I currently own an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.0.1 installed. My phone has been jailbroken not because I have a “SOFTWARE [...]
Within days of my putting on iOS 4.0.1 onto my iPhone 3G, the phone started to crawl. Playing music was painful and using applications became a joke. For example doing anything with Camera+ (a very cool photo app BTW) would take minutes when it used to take seconds. Downgrading to 3.1.3 caused my apps to [...]
This is probably a case of my not reading the manual. I use W3 Total Cache not because I get a ton of hits. I run it because it’s cool and interesting. With the current 0.9.1 version it suggests that you add to your .htaccess file a section to handle 404 for missing static files. [...]
Before WordPress 3.0 the default Kubrick theme was called, um, “Default”. In the support forums people would update to the latest and greatest WordPress version and become shocked when their edits to the Default theme were lost. It’s part of the WordPress distribution. When you override the WordPress files, those get included as well. Now [...]
I love these guys. George Lucas should be proud.
Not really news, but nice to see that Consumer Reports can send people the straight scoop. This seems to put to rest the myth of this being a software glitch. I still plan on getting one. I was going to get the bumper anyways and it’s still an awesome phone despite the antenna flaw.
I have way too many PCs in my house, but a couple of them have been elevated to “must have”. The notebook in the kitchen had become indispensable, like coffee in the morning. My morning wake up routine became Drink coffee Check my e-mail Check out my social networks Do a little sysadmin on my [...]
It’s here and it’s “Thelonious”. Now unless you are capable of Backing up your WordPress blog completely Performing the manual upgrade by hand Capable of restoring your file and database backup 100% yourself in case something goes seriously wrong then consider waiting before adopting WordPress 3.0 on your blog. The 3.0 release is BIG and [...]
