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Changes I’ve made and hacks I’ve added to make my WordPress installation do what I want it to.

lynx and mod_security

I’ve been implementing more web sites recently; it appears to be one part of the technology market for which there is still demand. One of the things I push when I meet with clients is accessibility, so I figured I should test my own sites and make sure they’re reasonably accessible. Lynx is one tool [...]

Feed Oddities

My blog feed is behaving oddly and I can’t quite figure out what’s going on. I’ll post when I’ve found out enough to give a salient description, and when I find a solution. Hopefully it won’t take too long. Update: it turns out to have been the BirdFeeder plugin, compounded with a stubborn cache. Guess [...]

Another WP Update

Having just updated my blog to the latest in the 2.6 series, it was time to go for the 2.7 series. Normally I wait a couple of days for other people to flush out the bugs, but I figured I’d be big and brave on this one, given it’s Friday afternoon. As usual with WordPress, [...]

WordPress and Atom

On my crafting blog I use the Tarski theme, and that used to give you the choice between Atom and RSS for the feeds. Then they took it out, saying that WordPress itself gives you the choice. Well, maybe it does (or maybe it did), but nowhere in the options for 2.6.1 that I could [...]

Minor WordPress Plugin Problems

I realized while installing the latest WordPress upgrade, that I hadn’t yet blogged some solutions to issues I had some time ago. These are all issues related to plugins. Problem 1: I installed the Organizer plugin to help organise my pictures. It wouldn’t show them, which somewhat defeats the purpose of an organizer. Looking at [...]

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Bad Behavio(u)r

If you use the Bad Behavior/Bad Behaviour plugin for WordPress, you will need to update it immediately if you don’t want to be blocked from accessing your own site (which is rather disconcerting). More details at Bad Behavior 2.0.11. Simply overwriting the old files with the new should work; another option is to rename the [...]