Tag Archives: Wordpress

The OS Quest Trail Log #11: Wordpress Upgrade & Website Redesign

This weeks quest was almost all Wordpress and website updates. It was a pretty complete makeover, from the foundation to the window dressing. As I previously mentioned, I wanted to explore Wordpress and web theme design. I really liked my previous theme, Redoable by Dean Robinson, but it needed to be changed to handle Wordpress [...]

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Security Quest #1a: Introduction and Catching Up

I’ve been running another site called the Spam Chronicles which was last updated after Patch Tuesday in August. I’ve accepted that I don’t have time to keep both sites up to date. So, long story short - I’ll stop even thinking about updating the Spam Chronicles and will instead incorporate the new content here when [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #4

New Ground
I spent my free computer time this week organizing my photos and moving them from iPhoto into Aperture. The one feature that has me into Aperture is the way it handles edits. The original photo is in Aperture once as a master and any number of edits can be made. Each edit is simply [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #1

It’d time to introduce the “Trail” to the OS Quest blog. It seems like the type of thing that should be done on a weekend, or maybe just once a month, or maybe whenever I can fill a post. (I’ve really thought this through) I’ll recap the things I’ve been working on and the things [...]

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Wordpress Update and Site News

I finally got around to upgrading to Wordpress 2.2.1 (from 2.2.0) which was released almost three weeks ago. One benefit of procrastination is that the Fantistico scripts available through Bluehost were updated and I could update with one click through Fantastico. I’m still paranoid and turned off all the plugins before the upgrade and started [...]

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Wordpress Plugins: Wordpress.com Stats and Google Analytics

When I redesigned my site at the beginning of June I added two new plugins for collecting site statistics. Both share the ability to exclude logged on site admins so my own site visits are ignored. The first is Wordpress.com Stats by Automattic (so sometimes listed as “Automattic Stats”) and the other is Google Analytics [...]

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