From time to time I like to pull the logs of the search phrases used to reach this fine webpage. I wonder at times… What topics do people think I can offer insight into? What do people want to know? How can I educate? Instead, I discover that people think I run a fan club.Continue reading “On Things I Am Not”
Category Archives: WordPress
On New Features!
Since I’ve been playing around with WordPress this weekend, I decided to add a few new features. First, I’ve put text on the About page. It’s been sitting out there, unwanted and unloved, for a while. That’s fixed. Second, I’ve restored a page linking to my writings. I had one, long ago, and it fellContinue reading “On New Features!”
On the Latest Look
Two years ago I hacked together a Doctor Who layout for WordPress and my website. It wasn’t anything fancy, it was difficult to read, and I had no clear vision of what I wanted to do with. Today I pulled out the stylesheet and took a look at the code for the first time inContinue reading “On the Latest Look”
On Web Servers
I’m thinking ahead. Four months ahead. I want to change my web server when my renewal comes up in June. Why? Because, four years ago when I started my website I got a really nice deal on some server space in the UK. And it was a nice deal because the exchange rate was reallyContinue reading “On Web Servers”
Again, On Shire Reckoning
I’ve been asked if my Shire Reckoning WordPress plug-in would ever be available as a WordPress widget. As of today, it is. Installation is a snap. Download the .zip file. Extract the file and upload it to your widgets directory. Activate the Shire Widget plug-in. Then on your widget management screen, drag it to yourContinue reading “Again, On Shire Reckoning”
On Getting Things Fixed
Hopefully, this will be the last post on upgrading WordPress. Hopefully. 😉 It took about two hours, but the sidebar links finally work again. It wasn’t an easy fix–I dug through files of the WordPress code to figure out how the new WordPress code passed arguments to the database to pull link categories and, byContinue reading “On Getting Things Fixed”
On Upgrading
And now, today, we’re on WordPress 2.1. I’m not sure why the upgrade failed yesterday, though I’ve left a couple of plug-ins turned off just to be safe. Unfortunately, the links in the sidebar have been replaced with an SQL error message. I’m going to work on getting that sorted forthwith. On the backend thereContinue reading “On Upgrading”
On Unnecessary Pain
Note to self: Wait a few days before upgrading WordPress to version 2.1. Might be a problem with the software. Might be a problem with the Tarski theme. Either way, unique and exciting failure modes! Getting the website back up and running — two of the most nerve-wracking hours of my life. Interesting. Ultimate TagContinue reading “On Unnecessary Pain”
On a Strange Search Phrase
I went through my website logs today, and in going through who was coming and going on my website today I noticed something really odd in the search strings used to reach allyngibson.com: a battle model of two armies using differential equation It wasn’t through Google. Rather, it came through MSN, and I don’t knowContinue reading “On a Strange Search Phrase”
On Making Notes for the Future
Note to self: Do not blindly write an .htaccess file if you’ve never done so before. Get it wrong, and your webpage won’t load, doofus. Unique and interesting failure modes, indeed!