Modifying Widget Titles in WordPress
On a recent project, my client wanted graphical headers for the widgets on her WordPress blog. Unfortunately, widgets are not that easily themed. Nor can you do this in CSS. The internet was no help. Lots of people were suggesting using a “dyamic_widget_params” filter. Nope, that isn’t what I want. [...]
Running Wordpress on Lighttpd
How to install Lighttpd/Wordpress on your Debian server.
Importing Wordpress to Banjo
Thanks to Andy C I’ve finished the Wordpress import script for Banjo.
That article gives instructions for direct SQL loading of a somewhat different blog database. I couldn’t use it directly for Banjo, partially because I’m through with using MySQL. I just can’t take all the UTF problems any more. I’ve gone all [...]
Multi-blogging for Wordpress update
One of the first post on this site was Multi-blogging made easy.
Fixed a Wordpress Feedburner Replacement Bug
This morning I logged into Feedburner to check my stats. AAAARGH! 0 subscribers on all my blogs.
Activating Akismet anti-spam plugin
If you are using Wordpress, and you aren’t using the built-in plugin “Akismet”, are you insane? Or are you a bit confused about that API Key thing you need?See, you need that plugin. Or at least you will once the comspammers find you.
Related Posts plugin modifications
I’ve been delaying using a related entries plugin because it didn’t fit with my normal way of posting. See, it uses a Wordpress custom field "keywords" to do its matching.
What is it about PHP
I’m no fan of PHP, I believe it is a terrible language which produces insecure, ugly code almost all the time, yet I use it. It powers this blog, for example, and it will be powering the online store I am about to launch. Why do I use it when there are [...]
3 Column template with good Adsense placement
The Three column style for Wordpress weblogs is getting very popular.
Wordpress 2.0.1 still has annoying attribute stripping
When Wordpress 2.0 was released, its aggressive tag attribute stripping caused me a lot of pain.
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