Let’s see how this turns out. I added a shoutbox along the sidebar of the site. Hope it doesn’t get abused like most things do. We shall see… Anyway, let me know what you think…
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URL Shortening in WordPress
I’m now doing my own URL Shortening using the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. For example, the following link is a bit long: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/christmas-in-the-heart/id331549170 So using Pretty Link, I tell it to add a link and then it gets shortened down to (or aliased to more like it): https://krypted.com//bob
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Fixes
Fixed the similar articles feature not working, then fixed the fact that this broke the front page. Also added some minor wiki integration (more on that tomorrow) and fixed the 1st level vs. 2nd level navigation in the DHTML menu bar. More on the navigation stuff later as this will lead to some content I’ve been working on going live tomorrow morning (I think).
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Websites & Hairdressers
When driving by the Aveda Institute one day, my wife pointed out to me that you can always tell how far into the program that the students are. The new hairdressers have long locks of hair, but those further along in the program have their hair get shorter and shorter and shorter. This is seemingly because they keep tweaking their hair through the program until there’s practically nothing left. Websites can turn out to be almost the exact opposite. The more you tweak it the bigger it gets, the longer it takes to load and the less time you have to focus on content. I’ve added a bunch of new…
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iPhone and Address Bar Icons
When you visit certain websites you may notice a new icon appear in the address bar of the site. I never really wanted one. But by default, when you add a site to the homepage of your iPhone (click on the plus sign in Safari and then click on Add to Home Screen), it will use that icon. Why do I care? I mean it’s not like anyone is likely to actually add this site to their home screen. But juuuuuust in case, I wanted it to have my spiffy new icon. You know, the one I spent at least 15 minutes building. Otherwise, when you add a page to…
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It's Snowing at https://krypted.com/
When it snows in Minneapolis, it snows on https://krypted.com/ (OK, not always, but when I remember maybe it does). Hope you enjoy it. And while we’re at it, I tweaked it so it should take up less resources on your computer. Let me know if it helps…
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Site Maintenance
Due to load, the site is being moved to a new server. As such, for the time being, there are some features that are not acting properly. The first is with Permalinks in WordPress 2.8. Basically, if you’ve come to the site through a search engine you may need to search within the site for the page that you are looking for. Pages are all still there, just might not be in the same path you came to. Simply use the search dialog at the top of the page for the search terms and the site will get you there. Second, the site might be down for a little while…
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On the Road: WordPress and Vacation
While this article is updating I’m on a beach somewhere in Mexico. One of the things I love about WordPress is that I can indicate a date to publish an article or just publish it “immediately.” If I indicate the date the article goes live then I don’t necessarily have to hop to the computer to post it. I can just indicate when it will appear and then viola – it’s up, without any intervention from me. So if you’re wondering whether I really am on vacation or not, know this – I am not shoveling snow this week… 😉
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Let It Stop Snowing
The snow effect on the site was causing the pages to load slowly so it has been removed for now until I can comb through and make it less intensive. Plus, it’s not snowing any more in Minneapolis, so it isn’t really that indicative of the weather anyway. 😉
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reCaptcha and Comments
After talking with the folks at Xsanity I have decided to try and open up comments to the site. You can still auth and post comments if you have an OpenID account, but you can now do so through the standard WordPress method provided you fill in the Captcha info. We’ll see how this works. Last time I tried comments there was simply too much spam. I’m willing to give it a second shot though, especially with the fancy-schmancy OCR whatnot enabled… To get Captcha to work I used the WP-reCAPTCHA plug-in available here. In order to activate it you need an API key from recaptcha but once you paste…