Coder’s Eye

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 […]

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One of the first post on this site was Multi-blogging made easy.

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This morning I logged into Feedburner to check my stats. AAAARGH! 0 subscribers on all my blogs.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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The Three column style for Wordpress weblogs is getting very popular.

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When Wordpress 2.0 was released, its aggressive tag attribute stripping caused me a lot of pain.

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I read some research lately which seems to show that keywords matter to search engines in your site’s “title” tag. Not only that, but position matters. Preferably your page title should precede your site title.Unfortunately Wordpress is coded to make that sort of ugly.

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Since upgrading to WP2.0 I had not been able to use my favorite Weblog editor Ecto to do any posts which contained any inline tags, such as div or span classes. Also, it had been stripping the meat of Image tags.

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