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WordPress for the iPhone

Chris Metcalf — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:32:27 +0000

Just trying out the WordPress iPhone app (from the bus no less).

A deeper iPhone review is on it’s way - I’m still trying out some things.

Site update: New WordPress theme

chris — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:37:30 +0000

Since I was just about sick of my old blog theme, I spent some time this weekend and worked up a new one.

It’s heavily based on Tarski, with a few local tweaks. Tarski worked out great as a base, and I highly recommend it.

Site Updates

Chris Metcalf — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:42:16 +0000

I couldn’t sleep tonight so I made a bunch of improvements to my blog:

Switched from using Ultimate Tag Warrior for tags to just using Wordpress’ built in categories as tags. UTW broke with Wordpress 2.2. Now my /tag/* links work properly and things are a lot cleaner.
A tag cloud widget in the right-hand column that actually works now.
Digg integration
Some new plugins in the back-end you won’t see.

Also of note is that I’m posting this from the Blogging Bundle for my new favorite text editor, TextMate. Very cool.

Hiccup!

chris — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:55:22 +0000

I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.1, so there may be some issues in the meantime. Stick with me…

Update: I’ve fixed the permalink redirection. Thanks for the heads-up Stuart.

Del.icio.us “Tagometer” Wordpress Widget

chris — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:45:03 +0000

I don’t know if anybody else has already created one, but it seems almost too obvious and simple to not do it.

I whipped up a Wordpress Widget for the new Del.icio.us “Tagometer” badge. No need to thank me, its probably the simplest widget ever written.

Download Del.icio.us Tagometer Widget (.gz file)

Super-simple install. Just download and un-gzip in your “wp-content/plugins” directory and enable it in the control panel. You can then add it like any other Wordpress widget. No configuration necessary (or possible).

You can see an example at right, under “Tagometer”.

For those of you who are old fashioned, you can also call the functions directly from your Wordpress templates to customize where the badge ends up.

Comments Fixed

chris — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:24:09 +0000

So it seems I broke my Wordpress template awhile ago and didn’t realize how easy it would be to fix it. I’d been putting it off but I fixed it earlier today.

It turned out I didn’t have a “single.php” file for formatting the display of individual posts, so it was using the main template instead. And that template was missing a single critical tag (that I didn’t know I needed to have) that plugs in the comment form.

So now you really can tell me how much I suck.

Converting UltimateTagWarrior Tags to Lowercase

chris — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:17:38 +0000

Just installed UltimateTagWarrior? Converted all your categories to tags? Dissappointed that your imported categories are capitalized and capitalized tags look stupid? Fear not! Fire up your favorite MySQL client and use this simple SQL query on your Wordpress database:

UPDATE tags SET tag = LOWER(tag);

I found it handy so maybe somebody else will.

Spit Polish

chris — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:09:00 +0000

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.4 tonight and decided that at the same time I might as well give my blog a bit of an “overhaul”. So if things look strange or suddenly stop working, its because I’m replacing the gerbils that run the internals of my site.

Comments are now unbroken

chris — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:02:04 +0000

Well it appears that when I upgraded my version of WordPress recently, I also managed to break the comment form on my blog.

I was wondering why nobody was commenting. Strangely I still managed to get blog spam though…

But its fixed now.

Del.icio.us Plugin Possibly Broken

chris — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:38:48 +0000

Well, it looks like the boys and girls at Del.icio.us may have made some changes to their RSS feeds that break my plugin.

So I’ve taken it offline for awhile, and I’ll figure out whats wrong with it when I’ve got some more free time. You’ve been warned.