How-To: WordPress Tags

Posted and filed under blogtech, Web Design.

Tags! They’re everywhere! It seems like every site on the ‘net is adding tagging now. Tag clouds — ridiculous, pointless, and annoying — are not the reason. Tagging is a good way to get into Technorati and a good way to get more traffic to your site. It’s a nifty way to organize your posts… Read more »

Disable WordPress File Upload

Posted and filed under blogtech, Programming.

Although I can appreciate that it’s a really nifty feature, I am likely never going to use the built-in File Upload feature in WordPress. What has bugged me is that it’s in an IFRAME in the Write Post panel; I think it slows the page load. I was trying to get rid of it, but… Read more »

WordPress Captcha

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The spammers finally broke me. I’ve gotten well over 3,000 spam comments since Monday morning. It was becoming such a pain to delete them all that I have now implemented Nio’s anti-spam comment captcha WordPress plug-in. It seems to be working pretty well so far. Please let me know if you have any issues. NOTE:… Read more »

WordPress Plugin: A Modern Major-General

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I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical. So I figured I should share with you. Download my Pirates of Penzance “Modern Major-General” random-lyric generator and you, too, will be able to tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin. Add the function moderngeneral() where you want to print the lyric. I have mine… Read more »

Simpsons WP Plugin

Posted and filed under blogtech, media.

I spent a few minutes goofing off tonight and grabbed an ultra-nifty Simpsons Plugin for WordPress. I hacked it a smidge and added about twenty more quotes. Trés cool. It’s amazing that there are just no decent Simpsons images on the ‘net. I seem to remember FOX going nuts on copyright violation a few years… Read more »

WordPress

Posted and filed under blogtech, Software.

It looks like I was able to successfully convert my site to WordPress. Maybe now I’ll start posting more often again. :0) Also: How to Write a Plug-In

Blogdata

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BlogData Tutorial At the bottom (or top) of each post on this site (and almost all of my MovableType blogs) I present a set of icons which I consider the entry’s “blogdata”. I thought I would share with everyone exactly how I do that. MovableType is excellent for this sort of thing, and Ben and… Read more »