• sites,  WordPress

    Upgrading WordPress to 2.7

    December 25, 2008

    Well, it’s that time of the year that I need to do a little spring cleaning of the ‘ole site.  So I figured I’d post how to upgrade WordPress.  It’s pretty straight forward.  But before getting started back up your install.  This includes the files and the database.  First off, the files.  For that just back up the root of your Apache home directory.  If you’re on a shared host this is often the public_html or www folder.  If you’re on a Mac Server this might be /Library/WebServer/Documents.  If you’ve customized your css and themes, etc you will most certainly want to triple-check that you’ve gotten your wp-content folder. Once…

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    Snow, Clouds, OpenID and PDAs

    December 22, 2008

    In recognition of the massive quantities of snow in my back yard at the moment I have installed Let It Snow. Props to Aen Tan for making it easy. Also, installed Cumulus, that cute tag cloud app I’ve been seeing all over the place. I hate to keep up with the Joneses (WP-style) but really, it’s nicely done… Have’ta scroll a little down past the graphics in the right nav bar. But it’s there… OpenID has also been integrated to allow for commenting.  I realize I’ve never really allowed comments.  But if you have an OpenID account I think it’s OK…  Also, there are two different themes that auto-redirect based…

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    WordPress: AdSense Integration

    July 17, 2008

    So there are a ton of modules out there for Joomla!, Mambo, WordPress and even Moodle that allow you to integrate AdSense into your site.  However, most of them are about as much a pain as just pasting the code into somewhere that it will fit.  For example, if you are using WordPress and you go into your Theme Editor then you, let’s say, edit the theme for Sidebar then you can just paste the code from your Google AdSense portal into a new <div> </div> section, or into an existing one.  It can take forever to figure out how to install, manage and use the various Google AdSense managers…

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    WordPress: flickrRSS

    March 27, 2008

    Wanna’ put some images in your blog without creating tons of traffic.  Well, consider dumping the traffic off to flickr using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-rss/

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    FeedWordPress

    December 23, 2007

    LOVE THIS!!! Rad Geek’s Projects – FeedWordPress Introduction FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from newsfeeds that you select into your WordPress blog; if you syndicate several newsfeeds then you can WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation (”planet”) website. I originally developed it because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet to use at Feminist Blogs. FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. You’ll need a working installation of WordPress 1.5 and FTP or SFTP access to your web host. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host would be…

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