Stats. Geeks love em and at some point my blog was acting sluggish and I was all like “OMG would it be that mobile plugin? Or the spam blocker? Or that one that makes it available for mobile?”. Yep, you guessed it. A shear geek panic attack. So I head over to the virtual plugin [...]
5 minute install. Seriously. Install a new theme for your blog from inside WP. No need to mess with FTP clients and uploading files and stuff. Easy peasy. Tons of free and open source themes to choose from. Plugins allow endless possibilities. Whatever you are looking for probably exists already. Facebook/twitter/whatever integration, fancy widgets, syntax [...]
If you’ve ever went to the trouble of setting up WordPress on a Windows machine yourself, going through a PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin installation, then sort through all the IIS crap you run into you’ll love TurnKey Linux virtual appliances (aka pre-installed virtual machine boxes). You can for example download a WordPress appliance which has [...]
November 18, 2010 – 11:30
Mobile! It’s the latest and greatest of the buzzes isn’t it? But it’s damn right too, because more and more people are starting to use their mobile devices to reach out into the fabulous and marvellous inter-webs to do all sorts of productive things like using twitter, visiting reddit, tumbler and 4chan or read interesting [...]
A while ago I found out some of my older posts were cut-off in the middle of a sentence or even in the middle of a word. Turns out that somewhere along the way of performing WordPress upgrades the MySQL tables’ collation had changed from a latin1 variant to utf8. Turns out that this conversion [...]
November 23, 2009 – 20:56
For this bookmarklet creation tool I posted a while ago I noticed that it was actually quite hard to get some custom written JavaScript code embedded in a WordPress post. When searching for a solution to the issues I ran into, I noticed there either wasn’t a lot of info to be found on this [...]
For a while now I was getting pretty tired with my old blogging theme, and wanted to restyle the whole thing. For the new theme I wanted to be able to use widgets, which makes changing your layout so much easier. I also wanted to use the extra screen real estate everybody has nowadays by [...]
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