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Plug-ins are fun

ksheehan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:51:21 +0000

Now that I’ve found out what the problem is with the remnants from the old template (too many active widgets), I’m having fun searching for and adding new plug-ins to the page. Now maybe I should write something profound… nah!

Rockin’ the 2.8

ksheehan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:29:42 +0000

I’ve got to hand it to WordPress: the new version of their software (2.8) is really nice and pretty easy to use. Along with this new template from WooThemes I might actually fool someone into thinking that I actually know what I’m doing. Now if I can figure out how to take out the ancient stuff and sections that I don’t want on my page, I may actually have something that I’d be proud to maintain.

Now how do I minimize the gargantuan archive list?

Growing pains

ksheehan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:35:25 +0000

I decided to move my photography site onto it’s own domain to hopefully bolster interest in my work. As part of that process, I’ve moved my blog back onto my former home page.

In the process of doing so, I decided to see if I could recover my posts from when I was using Blogger as my blogging software of choice; after all, WordPress has a built-in importer!

Needless to say it wasn’t that simple. Every time I tried to import my Blogger posts, it would always say that there were 0/0 posts available. I went through many, many web sites and finally found the answer to my problem. Moving the posting location from my own domain to Blogger.com allowed WordPress to successfully recognize and successfully import ALL of my previous posts. Not fun, but at least that part is finally complete.

Effortless conversion

ksheehan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:44:53 +0000

So as part of the site redesign, I found a plug-in that is supposed to convert the blog to something that can be read on an iPhone or an iPod touch, without having to make the iPhone theme the permanent one.

So I installed and activated the plug-in. The only problem is, I don’t have either an iPhone or touch on which to test it. However, I do have an Apple store close to where I work. So yesterday I headed down there for something else and remembered the plug-in. I loaded up the blog site in Safari and it worked perfectly! It even adapted automatically to the rotation of the screen.

I love when things just work and work as you would expect them too. Apple is one of the companies whose products just ‘work’ and now I can say that I consider WordPress in that same category.

The iPhone plug-in is called iWPhone and can be found here.