Message from the admin: For a couple of days, the WordPress installation at Chiperoni was broken. The framework of the website was displaying but all content within a blog post or page had disappeared. I could see the content in the admin view. I finally found the culprit: version 1.01 of a plugin called Markdown… Continue reading Broken WordPress Plugin Woes
Category: wordpress
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,… Continue reading Hiding in Full Public View
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… Continue reading Late Nite Prototyping
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:
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.
The RSS Footer
One of my regular Google alerts currently points to a blog that is scraping entire sections of my content and displaying these on a Blogspot site. I have reported the Blogspot site via this website: And I’m well aware of the fact that anything I publish on the world wide web is up for grabs.… Continue reading The RSS Footer
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… Continue reading Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
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… Continue reading Searching for a new, versatile WP theme
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… Continue reading Error 403
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.
GPL and Movable Type
Interesting: What a GPL’d Movable Type means for WordPress
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.
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
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: < ?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) {… Continue reading Adding the SEO Title Tag plugin
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… Continue reading Authentic content
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… Continue reading Corporate Blogging Experience
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.… Continue reading nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
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… Continue reading WordPress 2.2 tip: Press It bookmarklet
Blog resource links
Here are a couple of starting points: Blog hosting Three possibilities: Sign up with a hosted service such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Vox (fastest cos it takes all of 5 mins). Sign up with a webspace provider that already includes blog software in their package. Sign up with a webspace provider that offers PHP 4.x… Continue reading Blog resource links
The slides
Here are the slides of my talk that I just held at the STC Transalpine Chapter Conf: They’re very minimal and short… but over time I’ve collected a lot of examples at the back of my head so that I easily managed to fill the 1 hour slot. The online demo worked well with the… Continue reading The slides
Blogging for Content Developers
At an undisclosed location in the very near future, the editor of this beautiful blog will be holding a talk on a high-flying topic yet to be prepared. Blogging for Content Developers I’ve decided to give this whole project a jump-start by writing down the outline in my blog… because getting started is always the… Continue reading Blogging for Content Developers
CSS Positioning
Useful reminder when divs start getting more and more confusing: CSS Positioning
playland
Weekend is WordPress playland here at the headquarters of Chiperoni.ch. I upgraded to the latest version of WP 2.0.5 and started playing around with the Tarski and Simplr themes. Quite undecided still. Will probably return to the previous design any time soon. Here’s the current Tarski setup: And Simplr: Also included is the usual WP… Continue reading playland
MT vs WordPress
text snippet: WordPress has done a far better job of growing their community I agree