Tag Archives: life on the road
Website Layouts – Columns and Grids
We put a lot of effort into our past layouts, and I’ve found that those trying to write a WordPress Theme or website layout from scratch has a terrible time dealing with column layouts. Mezzoblue’s article on Columns and Grids examines the standard layouts in a fascinating way, based upon a grid. They explain that […]
WordPress Plugin – Just One Category
A challenge come up on the forum for a user who had a very interesting wish. When clicking on a category from the main page, he wanted a page showing the categories, but ONLY the categories from that category, not the children of the categories. Let me explain this better. By clicking on a link […]
WordPress Article Series Plugin: In-Series
Plugin Updated* Wow! Just wow! I write a lot of articles in series, connected together by topic and concept developing over the series. I’ve been struggling with various Next Page/Previous Page plugins and tags, but “struggle” is the key word here. Since WordPress deals in chronological order, keeping these articles in sequence is a serious […]
Successful Upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1.2
I should really trust the folks at WordPress a little more. After all, I work with many of them frequently during my week as a volunteer. When the news of the new releases (plus one security patch they leapt on immediately) came out, I thought “YIPPEEE!” Then I was so busy over the past two […]
Trailer Repair – Rewriting the Knobs
It is amazing the toll heat, sun, cold, and time can do on your trailer when it sits for five years. While we were in Israel, the trailer sat in a storage yard, cleaned out and protected but not shielded by the abuse of time. Over the new few weeks, I’ll be writing more about […]
Separating Comments and Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress – The Answer
I have been struggling with the issue of comments, trackback and pings in my WordPress site. Thanks to Nooscope’s article on Separating Trackbacks & Pingbacks in WordPress 1.5 (1.3), I found the answer. Let me clarify why I am an issue with comments, trackbacks and pingbacks. First of all, I love them. Adding the interactive […]
Pumping Water Everywhere
We’ve been driving for 8 hours, our butts are weary from the external throbbing of the road under our truck’s six wheels, the trailer dragging along behind us. We find a rest area, truck stop, WalMart, or anywhere we can pull in, weary beyond belief, to sleep for a few hours before we hit the […]
Different Category – Different Look: Creating Multiple Single Posts Looks for Different Categories
With the amazing help of the supportive folks on the WordPress Support Forum, my challenge was answered and I wanted to share this neat piece of template tag and conditional tag code with you. My very popular series on CSS Experiments in Design consists of almost a dozen pages with hundreds of different design experiments. […]
Latches and Broken Dishes on the Road
Jarring down Highway 10 through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, our backs were screaming from the rugged interstate. At the Louisiana border, we encountered a huge cavern that cross the entire two lane highway. There was no swerving to miss this one. As it approached, I could see the layers and layers of pavement coming at […]
GasBuddy.com – Find cheap gas prices in your city
In Israel, we were thrilled when we found anything under USD$4.50 a gallon (equivalent). Back in the states, we aren’t so shocked with the gas prices, but somehow, I’d forgotten how EXPENSIVE it is to drive a gas guzzler. When you think about a gas guzzler vehicle, I’m sure you are thinking SUV or something […]
WordPress Resources List
As one of the many volunteers who help out from time to time with WordPress on the WordPress Forum, I found myself repeatingly giving out link references so I started keeping notes and have put together a list of some of the link references most needed and asked for on the forum. Some of these […]
Comment Spammers Saying Thank You and We Like You
There is a bit of a thrill when you open up your Manage Comments admin page in WordPress and you see a list of comments waiting for you that say “Wow, like your site and I’ll be back” and “I learned a lot here and I’m glad you made this site”, or my personal favorite, […]
Urban Legends: Lightning Telephone Deaths
Still recovering from a lightning strike nearby that blew out several of the computers in the campground, our WIFI and cable modem, and my telephone, even though all of these things were unplugged though connected via cable and phone lines, a friend thought that I needed some cheering up and sent me this: Urban Legends […]
My Daily Tasks With WordPress
I thought that I’d diary my day-to-day tasks managing my WordPress website. It’s very easy to manage, but there are a few steps that few people talk about. In the morning, after the crunch of work is done, I check the various RSS Feeds that I monitor to see what is going on. I particularly […]
CSS Experiments – Web Fonts and Embedded Fonts
CSS Experiments CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs CSS Book Recommendations CSS Experiments Playing With CSS Blocks CSS Experiments with CSS Logo Designs CSS Experiments with Background Images and Backgrounds CSS Experiments with Lists, Menus, Tables of Content, and More CSS Experiments – Web Fonts and Embedded Fonts CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, […]