Tag Archives: wordpress
Putting Our Site into WordPress
Once I had a grip on the language of PHP and an understanding of MySQL, I needed to start thinking about how it would convert into database material. And I needed to figure out how to get this information not only into the database, but to meet WordPress’ needs for generating the content. Nothing is […]
Learning About WordPress
[Note: The following is the thought process I went through as I slowly turned my site over from static HTML to WordPress, a database driving PHP-enabled site management system built originally for bloggers. Following along with this, you will learn that many of my first assumptions turned out to be wrong, and others were smack […]
Recreating Camera on the Road with WordPress
[Note: The following is the thought process I went through as I slowly turned my site over from static HTML to WordPress, a database driving PHP-enabled site management system built originally for bloggers. Following along with this, you will learn that many of my first assumptions turned out to be wrong, and others were smack […]
2004 Weblog Awards
Even bloggers can win awards, a whole variety of them. Winners have been announced at 2004 Weblog Awards. Mobile, Alabama
Start a Winning Blog Article
Interesting article on blogging from the Washington Post called Start a Winning Blog. If you are thinking about blogging, or already at it, you can learn a few things here about the business behind the blog. Mobile, Alabama
WordPress Plugin – Related Posts
There is a lot about WordPress and PHP that I’m still learning. I did my first PHP mySQL query today as part of the installation of Wasabi’s Related Posts WordPress Plugin. This is a truly AWESOME WordPress plugin. Unfortunately, the help file isn’t very helpful when it comes to explaining how to access your mySQL […]
WordPress Plugins Database
I found an interesting collection of WordPress plugins from Unknowngenius.com’s WordPress Plugins Database. Worth checking out. Mobile, Alabama
Fixing WordPress Category Separators
After a bunch of searching, I found a way to create a separation between the categories under the title of each blog entry, following “Filed Under”. It is called a “category separator”. Look in the index.php file for <?php the_category() ?> and in the parentheses, if there is nothing there, you can put something there. […]
Updating the Look of the Blog
I haven’t finished the process, but you should see some visual changes in the look of my online journal. I finally took a few hours and did some much needed fixing, adding some bells and whistles and taking away others. I’ve changed the colors and improved the overall look a little. This is all part […]
Those Damn Curly Quotes
Just when I thought things were going great with the blog and my writing, I find out that my new installation of WordPerfect 12 (up from version 10) reset the “Smart Quotes” function back to ON. DAMN! For those who don’t know what this means, it means PAIN IN THE ASS! Smart Quotes is a […]
Hunting for HTML to Database Conversion Software
I’ve spent hours hunting all over the net for software that will convert my HMTL pages to something that will fit in a database. The reason? I want to convert my web site to PHP and mySQL and that requires taking my current pages and converting them to a form that can be read by […]
WordPress and Other Blog Details
I have recently added a small section to the left of the blog page that lists the last 15 blog entries. After much frustration trying to get Andreas Holstenson’s Related Posts Plugin or Table of Contents to work and not succeeding, I finally discovered MtDewVirus WordPress Plug-ins Most Recent Posts plug-in. It is very easy […]
Solving the WordPress Excerpt Problem – Sorta
The WordPress Blog Excerpt Problem (as I call it) came from the desire to have the first page of my blog, index.php, show only excerpts of the blogs instead of the default, the entire blog. I could easily change the number of blogs shown on the entry page through Options, but I couldn’t figure out […]
Setting Up the Blog
After quite a bit of research, I decided to give WordPress a try for handling our blog. For the most part, the “5 minute installation” worked great but there were a few minor glitches in the process. Almost immediately after posting the blog, but not any links from my web site pages, since I still […]
A Lovely Photo Blog
For those like us into nature photography, check out this lovely, photographic photo blog, shutterbug. This particular link goes to a lovely photograph of a lady bug on purple flowers. You move through the favorite pages of photographs by clicking the small arrow along the right side of the photo’s box. The design is lovely […]