Category: Site Update

After seeing a scary WordPress update warning on mashable.com, I was guilted into doing a little maintenance work on the old blog.   I was half way through the normal WordPress update procedure that I know and don’t really look forward to… backup the database, back up the site’s files, download the new release, unzip and…

Expected that last post to put in a Tweet.  Turns out I didn’t have the auto create tweet from post option turned on.  Option toggled and hopeful it’ll work this time.

A little tech task I’ve been meaning to get to forever was adding my Tweets to the sidebar.  I was gonna cook up something myself, but stumbled across Twitter Tools.  It was a simple unzip, copy, activate, set some options type of affair.  As a bonus, it also files a tweet when I publish here; …

All the cool blogs use Feedburner to host their RSS.  Now, I do too.  As far as I can tell, if you’re already subscribed, nothing will change for you some smoke and mirrors on this end will route everything through Feedburner’s servers automagically.  I don’t think you’ll need to do anything, but if things stop…

Finally getting around to updating WordPress again.  I was waaaay behind the times.  After messing around with the new admin interface (not that many changes on the end user side that I’ve noticed.) I have to admit that I should have upgraded sooner.  Oh well, such is life. I also got around to turning on…

Yeah, figured it was finally time to update to the latest wordpress. After enjoying all the enhancements on the wordpress blogs we use at work, I thought they might encourage me to work on my blog some more. The update wasn’t quite as scary as I thought it would be. Its basically the same as…

I like WordPress’ management interface, really I do. Well, except for one minor annoyance that’s not really WordPress’ fault. After typing on a plain old PC keyboard for years and years, I’m addicted to the home and end keys to jump to the start or end of the current line. Unfortunately, on Mac, the home…

I’ve been watching the post counter in my WordPress dashboard ticking up. Today is post number 200! Even though it took a while (about 2 and half years), I’m still pretty surprised I’ve stuck with it this long. Good time to catch up on some of my previous ramblings: Running My battle to get my…

Post headers, footers, and the sidebar headers now have nifty Super Mario Bros. flavor courtesy of the Super Modena Bros. free Icon Delivery from Icon Buffet. I think they perk up the design nicely. The icons are hooked up as CSS background images. This allows them to be change easily from the external style sheet…

A while back on my former pivot blog, I said I was migrating to wordpress. After that, I pretty much gave up on the old site. I was planning on doing a fancy schmancy site overhaul to coincide with the blog engine cut over, but I can never seem to find the time to work…