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

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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2008 03 10 Comments (0)

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 […]

2007 12 05 Comments (0)

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 […]

2007 10 04 Comments (4)

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 […]

2007 10 01 Comments (1)

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 […]

2007 09 24 Technology Comments (2)

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, […]

2007 06 08 General Comments (1)