Category: wordpress
Lost in WordPress
When you install a new WordPress theme, check to see what it does for 404s and unfound search pages. You may be surprised at the message you’re giving your readers.
For example, the popular Cutline theme produces “Easy, tiger. This is a 404 page. You are totally in the wrong place. Do not pass GO; do [...]
Multiple authors, multiple time zones?
I’m setting up my first multiple author Wordpress blog, for an organization with contributors across the United States. I’ve searched in vain for some methodology or plugin that allows authors to have their own time zones, so that their posts will be properly timestamped.
Is anyone aware of such a thing, or do I just have [...]
Site Redesign
I realized a couple months ago that I was consistently increasing the font size on my own site, and that I couldn’t read the light grey text in the sidebars comfortably, so I’ve done a little re-work. The WordPress template is Vertigo Blue Theme by Brian Gardner. I’ve also made category archives available, and have [...]
(Full Post)How about auto-moderate?
The barrage of uncaught spam comments appears to have stopped. S commented on the previous entry that she wouldn’t want to shut off any attempt to strike up a conversation, so I went hunting for something less draconian.
I’m giving Ozh’s Auto-Moderate Comments plugin a try.
Auto-close comments
Here’s a WordPress plugin that closes comments on all posts older than 21 days: Auto-Close Comments.
It runs a query and update against the database when any one of the following occur:
A post is published (but not saved as a draft), edited or deleted;
A comments is posted, edited or deleted;
A trackback is posted; or
A template is [...]
Spiffing the place up a little
It was time to update the place a little. My webhost, DreamHost, provides a spiffy install/upgrade utility for WordPress, but it’s no good if you installed WordPress yourself back in the Dark Ages.
I had been upgrading manually, but was a couple of revs behind. My old theme, based on Sub:Lemon, was written for WP 1.5 [...]
WordPress category trick
I use WordPress to manage several non-blog sites, and I tend to make heavy use of categories in order to organize posts properly. If it’s important that every post have a category, it’s helpful to rename the default category something like _uncategorized. This way it’s at the top of the category list, and you’ll see [...]
(Full Post)WordPress 2.0 permalink pain
I’ve been struggling with permalinks in WordPress 2.0 (on another site) ALL DAY. I’m irritated. I’m clearly not the only one.
(Full Post)WordPress 2.0
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Things look pretty happy. I’m still using Spam Karma on comments. Please let me know if you see anything wacky.
(Full Post)WordPress - display contents of child pages in parent page
Woo-hoo! Solved one of the items below.
I have a parent page (Current Season), with three children. I created a custom template for Current Season using the information provided in this support thread, and I now have a beautiful page which lists all the concerts, rather than just links to each concert’s own page.
Fun with del.icio.us
As always, way behind the rest of the world.
I got frustrated maintaining bookmarks on multiple computers, and trying to keep track of my blogroll. del.icio.us to the rescue.
It also prodded me to finally incorporate my static pages into WordPress. I had been resisting because I really didn’t want to update the pages. A lot of [...]
WordPress as lightweight CMS
On a different note, I’ve redone the Cantabile Singers website using WordPress. It was originally hand-coded php.
Now it’s all WordPress static pages.
Features that would really be nice:
Some way to reference sibling or adjacent pages
The ability to mark a page as Draft. It turns out that as far as the database is concerned, everything is [...]
Best Plugin Ever!
I just installed the x-Dashboard plugin, which totally dumps all those useless feeds and highlights recent blog activity (what a concept!).
Behold:
before
after
(Full Post)Legitimate comment deletion
Apologies to Rayna, whose legitimate comment was deleted by Spam Karma. I’ve upgraded to version 1.20, which is supposed to save deleted comments in the database for undeleting if necessary.
(Full Post)Admin fieldset fix for Opera
Here’s the fix for the goofy looking WordPress 1.5 admin interface in Opera.
(Full Post)Re-working the WordPress admin interface for Opera
DenkZEIT :: Umgebautes admin-Interface für Wordpress (Rebuilt administrative interface for WordPress)
Steffan has provided most of the workaround for the messy appearance of the default admin interface for Wordpress.
The problem is that the posting interface uses fieldset to position the page elements, and Opera won’t position fieldsets, just stacks them up one after the other. Steffan’s [...]
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