Category Archives: wordpress
Auto-upgrading WordPress and the .htaccess file
A pattern I have observed in the past months:
A couple of days after auto-upgrading WordPress, access to the WordPress blog is blocked.
My non-programmer’s workaround is:
Rename the .htaccess file on the WP level. The WordPress blog displays.
Login and go to Settings > Permalinks and re-save settings, or copy old .htaccess file content and upload by [...]
Wordpress Woes
I am having some problems with the .htaccess file on the Wordpress level. I tried regenerating the permalinks. Hope that will help for a while.
A couple of days ago there was a lonely s at the end of the file. Amakhala scared.
And:
I am seeing a lot of “MySQL server has gone away” error [...]
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Chiperoni goes Mobile (kind of)
As part of my ongoing research regarding internet access via low bandwidth connections, I saw App+frica displaying a mobile version at http://appfrica.net/blog/.
I installed the same MobilePress plugin and activated it a few minutes ago. Based on the plugin description, it should detect if you’re accessing the website with a mobile device and display a [...]
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UTF-8, Charsets and WordPress
It seems charset and UTF-8 issues are following me around.
At the day job and here.
I moved my blog from one install to the other. After importing the MySQL db, several characters were no longer displaying correctly.
There are a number of plug-ins and descriptions:
How to Convert Character Set and Collation of WordPress Database [...]
Social Media News Room
Cyberwiter posted the above tweet on using social media to enhance your company’s online news room.
The article lists ways how to aggregate text, images, audio and video to make it useful for corporations and their target audience.
Ein gutgemachter Social Media Newsroom ist essentiell für die Online-PR: Er …
1. eröffnet einen schnellen [...]
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Hiding in Full Public View
In January my stats dropped to an all time low. There are a number of reasons, I guess.
One reason is that I haven’t been writing much lately. Just an occasional link. Short cross-references to my Flickr stream. That’s it.
Another reason is my retro-style homepage, which points to my other life stream options (Twitter, Flickr, [...]
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Late Nite Prototyping
(work in progress, here’s a provisional brain dump)
Quick test install to demonstrate how WordPress can be used for a corporate newsroom:
(Update – 3rd November 2009 – Note from the Editor:
The prototype has been discontinued – but rest assured that the knowledge is still available)
The main page shows all news in chronological order.
Categories classify [...]
Mulanje
I just surfed through lots of cool new photos in the Malawi group on Flickr.
Including these photos of Mulanje mountain by Lisa de Vreede:
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Useful CSS and WordPress Links
For future reference:
Useful links on CSS and WordPress which I know I’ll lose if I don’t write about them here in my virtual notebook.
Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6
A message from the admin: Chip moved to WP 2.6.
If anything appears broken, leave a comment
Update:
Finally, fixed the Terong Related Links plugin, which hasn’t been working for the past months since I upgraded to WP 2.5. I found this fix here and simply replaced the PHP code as described. After activating the plugin, [...]
Searching for a new, versatile WP theme
I’ve been browsing around (aimlessly) looking at WordPress themes.
Uploaded a couple and tried them out, but there’s always something that I don’t like. Typography, comments, additional plugins I need to use the theme. After a while I return to my 3 column version of K2.
What I don’t like are hard-coded navigation or list links. [...]
Boxing Day
I’m playing around with WordPress themes today
Currently displaying is a Mac theme to celebrate this year’s move to a MacBook.
It snowed a little bit today… about half a millimeter.
Error 403
A WordPress plugin called Bad Behavior blocked me out of my own blog this morning.
Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /wordpress/wp-admin/index-extra.php?jax=incominglinks on this server.
Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists [...]
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open source morality
The benevolent dictator model
This article has been linked to from lots of WordPress sites, but I was just struck by the use of language… software is getting more religious and political comparisons.
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GPL and Movable Type
Interesting:
What a GPL’d Movable Type means for WordPress
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Adding a contact form
I’m trying out cforms II for a work blog.
See Contact
WordPress plugins are getting more and more elaborate…
took me a while to get this form to display cos of the various options.
Lorelle has an overview of contact form plug-ins.
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White Space
(half-geek plans)
Maybe I’ll try out this Wordpress theme over the weekend:
Whitespace WordPress Theme
And I’ve still got to figure out how to install and configure a Tomcat on a Mac.
And I still want to install MacFuse and MacFusion
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Adding the SEO Title Tag plugin
Here are my short notes on new Wordpress plugins I’m trying out at Chiperoni.ch:
SEO Title Tag
I read about this in a WordCamp 2007 report last weekend. The corresponding plugin web page is here.
If you’re using K2, open header.php and replace everything within the title tag with this:
<title>< ?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) { seo_title_tag(); } else [...]
Authentic content
I’ve been reading thru various WordCamp 2007 posts. And I’ve found quite a number of useful tips. This evening I quickly skipped thru Lorelle’s slides:
with lots of very useful advice how to build content.
Just a couple of thoughts to carry on the conversation:
I agree that you should spend extra time to write better posts. [...]
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Corporate Blogging Experience
useful:
What others are saying about corporate blogging
I like this:
Actions always prove louder than words. Lead by example. Give people something to aspire to but don’t make it so daunting that they will be easily discouraged.
This holds true for a lot of other things as well, not just blogging…
Apparently the number of blogs is peaking and [...]
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nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again?
In my case, that would be lots of ‘em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround. [...]
WordPress 2.2 tip: Press It bookmarklet
If you’ve upgraded to 2.2, don’t forget to update your Press It bookmarklet as well. I kept getting an undefined function in
wordpress/wp-admin/edit-form.php on line 35 error. Until I remembered that this might be related to the new version I installed a couple of days ago.
Here’s what you need to do:
Delete the old bookmarklet and [...]
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