I’m pretty happy with the way the upgrade went. The Bluehost outage was the only real problem. But like any other upgrade there’s always seems to be a few annoying but not terribly painful problems. These are the ones I’ve run into so far. Search – Articles don’t appear in search results until I save them again. This is for both the search box on the website and the post search in the admin console. This is less of a problem for me than it could have been. I’m implementing [...] Read the rest »
WordPress Plugin: Popularity Contest
Last week I started using a WordPress plugin to track the most popular posts. Naturally it’s called Popularity Contest. I’m using version 1.2.1 which was last updated Nov. 5, 1006. I turned off some of the features in the plugin until I can get a feel for how it works in a production environment. A couple of the features can’t be well tested in a test environment, plus it seems like a good idea to let it collect data for awhile before displaying the results. The plugin puts some intelligence [...] Read the rest »
Redirection via WordPress Plugin
When I was moving my site to a new host I figured I’d have broken links, especially since I was making a change to the structure. So I had installed the Redirection plugin by John Godley at Urban Giraffe. As part of it’s functionality it tracks 404 erros and allows for the easy creation of redirects for those URLs. It doesn’t require .htaccess to make the changes. While I hadn’t intended to use it to handle redirection for the /blog directory change, I decided to give it a try once [...] Read the rest »
Mini Posts Plugin for WordPress
I just added he Mini Posts plugin on this site. If you look over on the right sidebar you’ll see a “OS News and Rumors” box. Items shown in that box won’t appear in the main blog. On my list of things to do I was looking for a way to add short posts to this blog without clogging up the main page. I also wanted a quick way to do it since it wasn’t worth a lot of time to me. Some templates I’d looked at in the past [...] Read the rest »
WordPress Plugin For Importing New Blogger Blogs
I was looking for a way to import my Spam Chronicles blog, which is hosted on blogger, into WordPress. I came across a plugin that can import from the new Blogger. It worked great for me, although I admit t having a small blog. Only 8 posts and no comments. Check out the Blogger RSS Import plugin. Imports from the new Blogger are now supported directly in WordPress. Read the rest »
Why (or Why Not) the WYSI-WordPress Plugin
WYSI-Wordpress is a WordPress plugin that replaces the built-in rich text editor. It’s based on TinyMCE. After picking WordPress to be the primary content management system for my site (yea, it’s not a real CMS but it was simple and has what I want for now) I wanted to move some entries I had in blogger. There were only a few and when the import failed (no surprise as I’m using the blogger beta) I decide to go the same route used to get them into blogger, cut and paste. [...] Read the rest »
Why Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress Plug-in
Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress is a WordPress plug-in that uses the FCKeditor. The FCKeditor is an java based HTML editor. When setting up this site I quickly found that the built-in rich-text editor had some serious shortcomings that affected me. I found the WYSI-Wordpress plug-in and used that.. I then came across this plug-in which looked interesting. What initially attracted me to it was that I had seen the FCKeditor mentioned as used in other plug-ins and areas. This plug-in also uses the FCKeditor version current at this time so [...] Read the rest »