The latest release of WordPress added native post tagging to the core. The one great problem with the WP 2.3 release, though, is that it has no management tools to handle tagging. There’s an extra field in the Write Post screen, but that’s it. What if you want to go back and retrospectively add tags?Continue reading “On Tagging”
Category Archives: WordPress
On a Recent Search Phrase Round-Up
I must be some sort of pop-culture maven. Thanks to the Google-Fu of readers everywhere, people want my insights into why Boston Legal‘s cast is different this year, or they want to know who’s on Captain Jack’s Torchwood 3 team. Answer to the first — the David E. Kelley cast revolving door. Get used toContinue reading “On a Recent Search Phrase Round-Up”
On the Newest Upgrade
WordPress 2.3 dropped yesterday. I downloaded the latest version, spent half an hour uploading the new files to my server, and crossed my fingers. WordPress upgrades have been a mixed bag in the past. The 2.1 upgrade was a miserable experience. This upgrade wasn’t. I uploaded the files. I ran the update script. I didn’tContinue reading “On the Newest Upgrade”
On Prepping for the Next Upgrade
On Monday the new version of WordPress drops, and being the bleeding-edge person that I am it’s inevitable that Monday I’ll download WordPress 2.3 and break lots of shit when I upgrade. 😆 No, seriously. I’m not planning on upgrading immediately this time around. I still have nightmares of the 2.1 upgrade — that brokeContinue reading “On Prepping for the Next Upgrade”
On Search Phrase Madness
I haven’t pulled a server log recently to extract search phrases to see what’s hitting big. Honestly, there’s been little need — for a day-to-day look at what people are looking for, the Automattic Stats plug-in for WordPress has done a pretty good job of letting me see, without nasty server logs, what people areContinue reading “On Search Phrase Madness”
On New Website Changes
So, yeah, I’ve gone and redone the website. Again. Call it boredom. I’m just never happy with how the website looks. Why Stonehenge? I don’t know. And it’s based on the Kubrick WordPress theme, and I generally don’t like Kubrick. It doesn’t speak to me. Yet, for some reason, Stonehenge and the purple background worked.Continue reading “On New Website Changes”
On the Latest Spam Annoyances
Last week I went through my spam folder in my e-mail client. One, I wanted to make sure that no good e-mails had slipped through the cracks. Fortunately, not. And two, I wanted to go through the word salad spams and see if I could find some completely batshit phrase that might make for aContinue reading “On the Latest Spam Annoyances”
On Safari
Apple’s web browser for the Macintosh is Safari. About a month ago Apple announced that they would be making a verison of Safari available for the Windows platform, and compulsive tinkerer that I am I immediately downloaded the beta. Which, much to my surprise, worked not at all. I had no menu bar. I hadContinue reading “On Safari”
On 404s and Coding
More pointless techno-geekery! I hadn’t pulled a 404 report off my server in a while. A 404 report, say you? What’s that? Basically, it’s a report that tells me when people tried to access pages that don’t exist on the server. If it’s a full page, they get a message saying that the page hasContinue reading “On 404s and Coding”
On Mood Icons
A few years ago I used Alden Bates’ Dalek mood icons on the blog. Then, for whatever reason, I stopped using mood icons. In retrospect, it was probably that I’d changed the layout and they didn’t “fit” well with whatever layout I had going at the time. So, we’re going to give them another shot.Continue reading “On Mood Icons”