Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
For the last 3 weeks I’ve been working on a widget for Wordpress which allows you to send a particular search to WorldCat, return the results and display them in the sidebar in Wordpress. The results are mashed-up with data from Amazon, the GoogleBook API, and LibraryThing. The goal of the project was to demonstrate [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 17th, 2008 6 Comments »
I’ve had some time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 and use it to work on my blog for a while. So I thought it was time to post a little bit about my thoughts on the new interface. Initially, I was a bit taken aback by the new interface. Things were moved around and called [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
I did my upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 yesterday which promptly broke my blog because I neglected to upload of of the files. It took me a while to discover something was wrong because the Admin interface was working fine and my cache was showing my blog homepage to me just fine too. Thanks to Blake [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After being bogged down with projects for weeks, I finally was able to upgrade my blog to Wordpress 2.3 over the Thanksgiving break. The first thing I noticed post-upgrade was that I also needed to upgrade a bunch of my plugins (I really liked the fact that Wordpress now let’s you know your plugins are [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
When I first moved this blog to Wordpress, I didn’t really think about getting a theme at all. I just modified the default theme when I needed to. However, recently I decided enough was enough and I wanted a slightly more attractive theme. So I installed a free theme called Misty Look which was created [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Tech Demons on Apr 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ever since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 (I’m on version 2.1.3 now) the post page in Wordpress has been acting weird. Often when I click the “Save and Continue” or the “Save” button I get a page that says “Are you sure you want to edit this post?”. This happens at random intervals that I [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve just been reading the basic release notes for Wordpress 2.1 and I’m pretty excited about what I’m seeing. Below are a few of the features that I’m really excited about.
Spellchecking - I can’t spell well so I’m really looking forward to this. Granted since I moved to Firefox 2.0 I already have spellchecking but [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 18th, 2006 9 Comments »
So I spent some time today playing with Wordpress MU because I wanted to try it out and see how it compared with Movable Type as a multi-blog, multi-user blogging environment. We’ve been using Movable Type for blogging for the last year but for a number of different reasons (the biggest being we don’t have [...]
Posted in Blogging on Sep 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress has been driving me crazy for a while. So today I broke down and completely replaced it with a plugin called Advanced WYSIWYG Editing. One thing you have to keep in mind if you want to get this plugin to work with Wordpress 2.0.4 is that you need to install [...]
