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 [...]
February 27, 2008 – 22:23
I checked out the new Photodropper WordPress plugin lately, which looked like the gem of a plugin I have been looking for recently. It allows you to search Flickr’s vast pool of Creative Commons pictures straight from WP’s writing page, and insert the chosen pictures complete with attribution links and all. Sounds sweet as pie [...]
December 24, 2007 – 16:29
The name servers are pointing to the new Linux machine from now on, and things are running smooth (so far). The WordPress database issue was solved by upgrading to the latest 2.3.1 version, which required a DB upgrade anyway, and fixed the tables that where incorrect. I had manually fix the md5 hash codes for [...]
December 19, 2007 – 20:52
Yup. After the latest hickups and glitches and the fact that hosting on a Linux machine is considerably cheaper at my hosting co than doing the same thing on Windows I’m moving this blog over to a brand new spanking Linux machine in the following days. I’m hoping I’ll manage to set up things smoothly, [...]
Things that suck: having to change your permalinks. They’re called permalinks for a reason, but if for some unknown reason you keep getting CGI errors on the old links you can’t just keep that setting can you? So now I’m using the old and ugly WP default permalink structure again, linking to a post using [...]
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