I’ve been meaning to add a ‘related posts’ plugin to my theme for quite a while now. Adding the plugin was dead easy. However getting it to look decent on my blog template was an exercise in first class, grade A, CSS butchery. Look away Dan Cederholm.. Bulletproof CSS this is not.
I approached the problem […]
One of the highlights of my recent Vegas vacation didn’t have anything to do with Vegas. The inimitable Dave Yates interviewed me via phone for Episode 73 of his Lottalinuxlinks podcast. This is definitely one of my favourite Linux podcasts, and that is probably all down to Dave himself. He always makes me chuckle.
It went […]
Another problem I’ve just noticed I’m having with Wordpress 2.5 has to do with image uploading. After attempting to upload an image to a blog post, I was presented with the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_constrain_dimensions() in /home/u5/ng0larmlon/blog/html/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 173
A quick search revealed (again) that I’m not the only one having […]
I followed Wordpress.org’s 3 step upgrade instructions and I think I’ve got it right. Every thing in the dashboard and editor is nice, pastelly, roundish cornery goodness. The blog itself still looks fine. I’ve got all the plugins reactivated and it seems to all work hunky-dory. However..
When I hit my wp-login page, I see an […]
After several lunch hours of hairpulling, several evenings worth of reading and re-reading articles about floating left, floating right, clearing both and all about how IE treats the css box model like a red headed stepchild, I finally hit a milestone in the journey (how’s that for overstatement!). I have a new and almost passable […]
I’ve decided I think I’m going to go to a fluid layout for my new blog theme. I happily started re-building my CSS to do just that but I’m running into a problem that seems a little weird involving CSS and div heights. I’ve approached it six ways from Sunday and still don’t understand it.
It’s […]
Back in September I posted about the fact that Google Docs supported uploading of Powerpoint presentations and the gave the ability to have a chat session through Gtalk at the same time.
I just found out that recently (I think as of the New Year) they’ve also provided an embed code when […]
I took a crack at my initial idea for an original Wordpress theme. I did up some quick and dirty graphics using Inkscape and muddled my way through the CSS and came up with this:
I wasn’t impressed with it. I fiddled and diddled with it, but it didn’t look like anything too promising. But hey, […]
A few days ago, I managed to work through part 3 of wpdesigner.com’s Wordpress theming tutorial. This left me with a locally installed copy of Wordpress, a plethora of test posts (which are invaluable), and a rudimentary theme. And perhaps most important of all, I learned a lot about how a Wordpress theme works (and […]
When I first decided to purchase some hosting, create a new website and move my blog to Wordpress, one of the things I wanted to do was create my own Wordpress theme (rather than just tweak an existing one). Not because I’m a glutton for punishment, but because (as always) I love learning new things […]