bits and pieces
I upgraded the knitting blog to the new version of wordpress and didn’t run into any major problems, except I accidently deleted the stylesheet I’d been using for the site and my RSS feeds started 404ing. The fix for the feed issue is described here, and the fixed header file is here. I’m probably going [...]
category feeds!
I’ve known that wordpress supports category feeds, but I haven’t taken the time before now to actually figure out where they were. All you need to do is add a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. So! If you only want to subscribe to the section where I talk about [...]
housekeeping
I’ve installed a plugin that will close comments on older posts, I started getting hit by spam and this was the quickest fix. If you have a comment on an older post, e-mail me and I’ll include it. Hopefully when I have more time to investigate all the wordpress plugins for comment spam, I’ll switch [...]
dreamhost and wordpress
Dreamhost is now offering one click installation of WordPress. Nice!
test
Just testing things out with the latest version of wordpress. I’ve been under constant attack from comment spammers (the way wordpress works, none of it has actually shown up on the site, it just gets held in a moderation area for me to delete) so I imagine I’ll be installing some anti-comment spam plugins soon.
pretty wordpress library blog
Carthik points out the Cass County Library web site. The navigation mouseovers on the moon image work very differently in Internet Explorer and Firefox. I think this is the first example I’ve seen of a wordpress powered library home page.
wordpress for dummies
I think I’m going to start blogging a bit about wordpress and what I’m going to do to start tweaking this site a bit. WordPress is really easy to use (I’ve set up 3 wordpress blogs and only ran into trouble when I was attempting to republish the individual entries from my old movable type [...]
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