So here’s the deal. Six months ago I put up an “Ask Allyn Anything” post. I’m not exactly repeating that. Rather than ask me questions like how I take my coffee or the like, give me a topic. Give me a topic, and I will rant about it. Or write at length. Give you myContinue reading “On Things to Write About”
Tag Archives: WordPress
On Reviewing Comment Spam
I’ve spent the last hour going through recent comment spam. Most every blog is subject to comment spam in some form or another. Basically, rogue computers will try and place random comments on blogs that have little, if anything, to do with the post they’re commenting on. The comments will then link back to someContinue reading “On Reviewing Comment Spam”
On a Winter Wonderland
It’s December 23rd. It’s foggy, and it’s rainy. It should be a winter wonderland, shouldn’t it? Snow and trees and snow, right? Well, it can be. On my blog, anyway. Brian Gardner, who designed the Vertigo Blue theme I’ve been using for a while now, released last year a Christmas theme for WordPress called “Wonderland.”Continue reading “On a Winter Wonderland”
On Dealing With Content Theft
In late October I discovered that someone was plagiarising my blog posts on a website, reason unknown. The website looked to have dozens of others’ contents, presumably to game Google’s page-ranks or somesuch. I could have shrugged. Seriously, how do you fight that shit? I sent him an invoice. I’m handy with a computer. IContinue reading “On Dealing With Content Theft”
On More Tinkering
And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. 🙂 WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work anyContinue reading “On More Tinkering”
On Some New Changes
The Stonehenge theme was always a short-term solution. I knew that WordPress 2.3 was coming. I knew it was adding tagging to the core. And I knew that meant changes under the hood to the way WordPress themes worked. I remember the upgrade to 2.1. Oh, do I remember the upgrade to WordPress 2.1. SoContinue reading “On Some New Changes”
On This and That
From Godwin to Scotland. It’s a live album from one of my favorite bands, Carbon Leaf. It’s the recording of a concert they gave at Mills Godwin High School in Richmond as a fundraiser for the school’s drama club to go on a trip to Scotland. I think that maybe 200 of these CDs wereContinue reading “On This and That”
On Restoring Service
Sometimes things break. Like the blog. Sometimes it breaks. 🙂 To make a long story short, I’d decided before the upgrade to WordPress 2.3 that I’d wanted to put up a new layout scheme for the blog. I’d found exactly what I wanted. It looked clean. It looked modern. It looked super spiffy. But becauseContinue reading “On Restoring Service”
On Tagging
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”
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”