Software
dd-wrt to the rescue (again)!
My Netgear WNR834B v2 has been showing it’s age and giving me grief lately. After a few hours of network usage, my Netgear would suddenly start rebooting itself and keep doing that every few minutes. The only thing that would bring it back to life would be to pull the plug, wait a few seconds, [...]
Easy Twitter Button for WordPress
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 [...]
Coraline child theme
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 I just converted a blog from an old outdated Cutline theme to a SVN copy of Coraline.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 [...]
Android or iPhone 4?
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 [...]
Some imaginary files are alright
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. [...]
Use WordPress child themes
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 [...]
WordPress 3.0 is gold
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 [...]
Google XML Sitemaps and WordPress Multisite
Update: Arne has posted an early test version on the WordPress support forums here. At this stage it’s not yet ready for release. If you would like to test that version, you can support Arne’s effort by downloading and reporting any issues to him on that thread. I’m lazy and have not yet tried the [...]
Converted to WordPress 3.0 Multisite
I have a few blogs and I’ve been maintaining them each one at a time. So when a new version of WordPress is released or plugins get updated, I end up repeating the same process 5 times. WordPress 3.0 (I’m using 3.0-RC2 as of this writing) supports multisite functionality. One set of software runs multiple [...]
WordPress 3.0 menus and Hybrid theme
WordPress 3.0 beta comes with support for a customized menu system that optionally replaces the wp_page_menu with wp_nav_menu. Drag and drop menu management is a cool and useful feature. It’s like widgets only for navigation purposes. For my WordPress blog I am using a child theme of Hybrid called WP Full Site and I’ve made [...]
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