WordPress

WordPress 2.3 beta tag cloud

The WordPress 2.3 beta tag cloud is XHTML Transitional not Strict.  Also if you want to keep UTW then the permalinks /tag/sometag will not work; the /tag/ will go to the WordPress one and not the UTW version. Hopefully someone will make a UTW like interface, presentation plugin that lets you use the built-in tag [...]

Trying out WordPress 2.3 beta

On my back up site I’ve restored my WordPress blog and did the site_url thing in wp-config.php. Then I installed the WordPress 2.3 beta on top using svn. Beta 2 is working really well and the UTW tag importer does work. When I use the default theme the tags show up; when I try to [...]

Translator plugin notice in javascript

Updated: I’ve rearranged the code a little bit so that I could selectively translate parts of the notice. The updated javascript sections is located here. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I had to switch back to the old copy of the ATPP WordPress plugin. My [...]

Translator plugin problems

Well be careful what you wish for. The new version of the translator plugin has a load balancing/fail over option so that if the primary translator is unavailable and does not respond in time then the request gets sent to the next translation engine. That is a very cool option. It also means your webserver [...]

Machine translation in WordPress

In 2006 I started playing with a translation plugin for WordPress. It was free and I liked the 1.0 version. When the author took the next version for purchase only (no longer free) I waited for version 4.0 and plunked down the money to obtain it. The plugin ATPP works reasonably well. It does not [...]

XHTML and image rotate for the header

I’ve had some free time so I’ve added so I went through all my posts (153!) and made sure they validate as XHTML strict. I’ve also played with this theme and added the image rotator for the header. Using Matt’s rotate.php script, I created a directory called and dumped some images in there.  The images [...]