Posts Tagged ‘ wordpress ’

It’s 9:43 on Saturday morning and I’m at WordCamp Whistler right now. Tons of cool people here, and I want to be able to remember and connect with them, so here goes: Fran Chelico Nice Moo cards! Caroline MacGillivray of beautynight Founder of a charity doing makeovers for abused/neglected women Karen Hamilton, of tinybites...
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It’s hard to imagine, but WordPress is now over 5 years old. A French blogger, Ozh, posted images of WordPress’s admin interface on his blog in December. I just saw it now, but wanted to see the images in a single presentation deck so that you can flip through them and see the differences...
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This is where Twitter comes in handy … proof that it’s not just me. WordPress downloads are not working right now – when you click on the download link, you simply get an empty page. I first thought it must be a problem on my end,...
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Five times in the past 3-4 weeks I’ve written and published a post on this blog only to come back a day later and see it not actually published and live. What’s going on? The question in my mind is: am I actually publishing the post or just hitting Save? As you can see...
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Check out http://scoblerizer.wordpress.com/ versus http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. That’s Just another little reminder from the universe that URIs were never designed for humans. And that identify theft is all-too-easy online. It’s somewhat amusing … whoever started the scoble-like blog started blogging on April 13, 2006 with a classic “I’m blogging at last” post, and apparently ended that all-too-brief...
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As you’ve undoubtedly noticed if you’ve been reading my blog lately, I’ve been in Nashville attending the NAESP conference. Great city, great conference, and this is a great opportunity to check out the new WordPress gallery feature. Some of my Nashville photos, after the link … click on any to see larger versions (and...
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WordPress automatic upgrade absolutely rocks. Upgrading WordPress every time there’s a minor security update is a major pain the you-know-what … but WordPress automatic upgrade takes all the pain out. Here’s where to get it; here’s the site of the people that made it.
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Well, I went minimalist for a while but, since I am perennially unable to keep a WordPress theme for longer than a month or so, I’ve up and switched. This is Silhouette by Brian Gardner, and it’s actually still fairly minimalist … but a lot easier on the eyes. The only problem I see...
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I’ve finally, finally, finally invested some time and energy in this, my new blog … and it feels good. The idea is that Sparkplug 9 is the focus of my digital life. It’s the hub connecting all the spokes of my online interactions. Sites So the latest sites I’ve found useful and interesting are...
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Just wanted to send a very happy shout-out to Techie Buzz, who make the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Very simply, it’s wonderful. Upgrade WordPress is, frankly, a pain in the you-know-what. There are updates frequently – usually for good cause, such as security. Sometimes they come as often as twice a month. Sometimes an...
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I just installed delicious for WordPress, a beautifully widget-ized plugin that displays your most recently saved links. The least I can do it send Rick, the creator, a couple of visitors …
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Whoa.I now have all three of my former blogs (bizhack, art-n-artifice, and fishcrackers) imported into this uber-blog.The toughest one was bizhack, which had over 1400 posts and a 4.3 MB export file … 2.3 MBs over the WordPress import limit.WordPress import hackI had to use David Seah’s wordpress import hack to get it imported...
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I guess the title says it all … Akismet, which is a comment spam identification and deletion tool, is under the active menu, Manage, not under Comments.Odd.On a related note, I’m getting something like 5000 comment spam attempts a week, of which about 1 makes it through onto the site.Two things that implies: Akismet...
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Just noticed tonight while checking Scoble’s take on the new Apple products that he’s only got 5 posts on his home page now. Not enough, Scoble – you run more posts than that that in a single day sometimes. Having to click to a new page just to see what else was posted today...
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The worst righteousness is self-righteousness. I know this from personal experience, since today, in recompense, I had to eat a wacking plateful of humble pie. This morning I sent a fairly energetic letter to David Sifry. It wasn’t rude, but it was intense. The perceived problem? For the last 3 days, Technorati has not...
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