I finally installed FAlbum, Elijah Cornell’s plugin that integrates Flickr galleries into WordPress. It makes fabulous galleries; see how good my own galleries look.
Unfortunately, installation is a bitch. No matter what I did, I just could’t get friendly URLs to work, and attempts to troubleshoot it just broke the damned thing, again and again. So […]
I keep tweaking my WordPress blog, trying to bring it closer to some kind of ideal. Here, in list form, is what I did recently.
New banner photograph. I found a brilliant photo by scouring Flickr for Creative Commons, “BY-NC-SA”-licensed photographs. I tweaked it in Photoshop, then masked it into my banner image. Began using <!—-more—-> tags […]
I’m feeling great about this blog. Blogging with WordPress is tons more fun since I installed a few, key plugins and cleaned house a bit.
Statistics: Who’s hitting my blog? What’re they hitting me with? Install ShortStat v0.36b and PathStat and understand what addiction is about. While you’re at it, sign up for StatCounter. Tags:amazon […]
I’ll be on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington the next four days, attending a technical preview conference about “Office 12,” the next version of Microsoft Office. Yippee. I’ll be taking pictures of as many geeks as possible.
Update: I just saw an overview of the new GUI for Office and their new thinking in interface […]
So my brother read my blog, liked it, and wanted help replacing his blog at Harvard Weblogs, which runs on Manila. (He wants to start blogging in earnest, and Manila, he says, is not-so-intuitive.)
Hell, I can do that. I installed WordPress for him last night (as a sub-domain of my site). The procedure went much […]
I just signed Sophie up for a Gmail account.
Obviously, it’ll be some time before Sophie starts writing emails. But I wanted to register a reasonable user name for her before they were all taken. More than that, though, I want to start writing emails to Sophie. Writing about your infant daughter on a public blog […]
I love WordPress, but—-loving to tinker—-I find myself tweaking it more than I post to the damned thing. And isn’t that missing the point? Administrators have a distracting wealth of privileges. Logging yourself in at User Level 2 may help:
Create for yourself a new user account
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