In order to make any adjustments to the HTML of your new WordPress site and Theme, you have to find the references to the styles in the php code of each page section. In WordPress 1.2, this was easy because most of the information was found in the index.php page. With WordPress 1.5, everything is […]

I’ve been poking at this WordPress Theme of mine for a few days and all the little nitpicky stuff is getting me down. There are a lot of major and minor things to clean up. And I’m totally not happy with how FireFox is handling my old layout. In fact, I’m disgusted with my old […]

With the move to WordPress v1.5, things are a little more challenging for creating a CSS file. As I mentioned, the header, footer, index page, and other elements are now divided up into pages which are “included” in the main index.page. A div or class will start in one template file and finish in another, […]

Wouldn’t you know it. Here I am, working my buns off to learn how to use WordPress, importing massive old articles into the database, playing around with a test site, and I’m about ready to make it go public, and WordPress releases not only a new version, but a humdinger of a new version. It […]

I’ve been making a plan, and checking it twice, going to find out if I’m naughty or nice….you know the routine. The effort to convert my site from static HTML to interactive database, specifically into WordPress, has been extremely educational. In other words, I’m learning more than enough about things I wish I didn’t know. […]

I finally got the import-mt.php import file that comes with the default WordPress installation to work. Whew! What a long and hard ride, but I learned a lot and I hope you will find some lessons here, too. Some of the following information might be a little redundant, but if you are finding this page […]

And I think I have problems converting my site over to WordPress. This is an amazingly thorough study called Archiving Smithsonian Websites: An Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project. It looks, step-by-painful-step, at the process the Smithsonian took to convert their websites to database driven power sites. WOW! I will be […]

After treading carefully around the PHP and coding of WordPress, I have become fearless. I just installed the WP Plugin Manager and wish I had done this months ago. Today I bravely added the following plug-ins, hacks and changes, and I am thrilled with the results. StatTraq A PHP function that works with WordPress to […]

Okay, I made a lot of mistakes along the way to forcing my static HTML information into the WordPress database. In an effort to help others learn from my mistakes and compromises, I present mine to the world so you can see that a lot of hard work and screw ups went into the finished […]

Throughout this long and tedious process, I even tried manually importing my static html pages into WordPress, after they had been converted to XHTML, cleaned up and restructured to meet the manual MySQL import layout. Since I was working with material I’d already cleaned up, changing it from the import-mt format to the MySQL import […]

I’d validated a lot of the HTML of my web pages, then ran it through a conversion from HTML to XHTML, and searched and replaced across the multiple files to eliminate the redundant styles, HTML structures, meta tags, javascripts, and unwanted elements, reducing it down to the Title, Author, Excerpt, and Body content. What remained […]

When I’d search and replaced the parts of each page that could be eliminated, I needed to start the next series of search and replaces which would turn the information into the MoveableType format. Following the guidelines set up in the article MoveableType Instructions for Importing Data, I had a format to follow and a […]

Setting up the “look” of your blog can be painful if you aren’t familiar with CSS and HMTL. Bloggia Weblog Hosting helps you create your own WordPress Blog “look” or theme. It’s really easy to do and fun to be creative with the different colors, but it doesn’t allow you to adjust column width other […]

Every web page developer and designer has their own unique way of presenting their code, and packaged HMTL software packages often overcode their output, so no matter how hard you worked to streamline your code and make it consistent and valid, there will always be exceptions to your own rules. You still have to go […]