I was interested to read Mike Rouse’s post about the new Number 10 site and how it’s running on Wordpress.
This blog runs on Wordpress (WP), and overall, I think WP is a very good blogging platform. For starters, it’s free, open source software, is a doddle to install, has some decent admin screens and has […]
As a follow up to this earlier post, I realised that things were even easier than I thought. I’d been taking the kml file out of Google Earth and FTPing it before linking, when all I needed to do was to upload the kml file. Once uploaded, it creates a link which the plugin processes. […]
I should probably together a video on this, but here’s a (reasonably) nice way to put Google Maps on your Wordpress Blog.
Get a Google Maps API Key. You go to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html and enter yoursite and you get a key. Keep this key.
Download the XML Google Maps plugin, unzip, place in your Wordpress plugins folder and […]
I’m trying to figure out some of the Wordpress code, and I’d like to raise a glass to the team behind it. It’s nicely structured, not too heavily overabstracted, and so quite easy to follow in order to make some changes.
I found that the easiest way to do video was to avoid the plugins (which gave me trouble) and simply switch off the visual editor when creating a post.
As this video explains:-
Another extension in use on the site is the Google Sitemaps Generator.
If you’re not aware of sitemaps for your site, they’re a good thing to have. In simple terms, they help search engines to learn more about your content, like what’s important, how often a page changes, and when it was last updated. I’ve noticed […]
One of the problems with converting to Wordpress is that my old URLs stopped working. I thought maybe I’d get around to hacking around with regular expressions, but there’s a problem with the format of posts changing over time, and I’m only an orange belt regex ninja.
With the help of Google, I came across a […]
One of the nice features in Wordpress is the ability to upload an image into a blog.
The thing is that getting the image uploads right isn’t necessarily easy. You have to do some CHMODing of folders so they can write the files, but that won’t always solve it.
Sebastien Wains solved my problem. If PHP safe […]
As part of the conversion to Wordpress, I noticed that one of my videos hadn’t come over properly. I went looking for an extension and found Viper’s Video Quicktags which does the job.
Once installed and activated, you get new buttons for embedding FLV video into posts.
I’ve finally (after various problems with DNS and getting domain transferred), switched this blog to Wordpress, including a theme that I call Yellowcab.
The theme and content are still under development.
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