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 [...]

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 [...]

WordPress Permalink Changes

While upgrading my WordPress installation, I decided that the permalink structure’s inclusion of the “/archives” string was superfluous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ contains as much relevant information as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink structure, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migration to take care of the 301 redirection of links to the old URLs. So far it seems [...]

WordPress and File Masks

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 at the weekend. Everything seemed to upgrade properly with no database errors, but I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error when I tried to look at the site pages. The error logs contained the answer – error: file is writable by others with a pointer to the main index.php [...]

Navigating Sites

I was chatting with Norm Walsh this morning, and he pointed me at the navigation toolbar he uses for reading specifications. It’s one of those small things that makes the web world more functional. I often miss a couple of days of posts from some blogger on my not-quite-every-day list and this makes starting on [...]

Website Connections

One of the themes of the Gilbane Report article I wrote some time ago on Blogs and Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications? was that people can use blog software as an easy way to create a web site that doesn’t look like a blog. It’s easy to update the content, easy to add more content, [...]