Category Archives: meta

Whee, security fixes. This was my first test of SVN vendor branches, and I managed to hork up the web directory pretty bad when I first did it, but a quick fresh checkout and everything was fine. Duly noted: When … Continue reading →

Steven Engelhardt succumbs. This is why good anti-spam software trumps SQL. I only spent 6 months deleting spam from MT and adding to the blacklist by hand before I went looking for a better way. That way is Spam Karma.

Well, in this case it was real bad. Here’s a tip: When using the “RSS widget” in WordPress, do not point it to any web-based feed. While moving files around, I managed to make the Gallery RSS feed completely nonexistant, … Continue reading →

WordPress has some pretty crappy code buried in it… the curse of PHP. I can’t complain too much because it’s still a very robust platform with a good community and the best anti-spam plugin. That having been said, WordPress has … Continue reading →

Keith is leaping into the breach with Sandbox. Welcome. Two tips: The first is that you can use CSS to do the header image without altering the base theme files. The second is that when you do edit your custom … Continue reading →

RSS is a crappy spec, so this blog is now 100% atom. And instead of serving up the same feed on a half dozen different URLs, I’m now redirecting all the feeds to /feed/atom. Dang ole feeds.

So, a while back I switched from using a hand-written (in PHP) theme to using this awesome little piece of code that generates a semantically useful page that can then be CSS styled. On another site still under development, I … Continue reading →

Atom is better than RSS. Much much better. WordPress, however, only supports the sucky old deprecated Atom 0.3. So, you should use this plugin to change your wordpress blog to serve up only Atom 1.0 (and no RSS whatsoever). It’s … Continue reading →