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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 20 2024 - The Nothingness I Had Before
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 20 2024 - The Nothingness I Had Before Download audio On this show I play a song by Love Tractor; I saw Love Tractor open for Husker Du; I switched from Wordpress to Eleventy; I want to return comments to my static web site; I have been gardening...
read articleMigrating from Wordpress to Eleventy
After almost 18 years on Wordpress, I have decided to give up on it. There are many benefits and upsides to using it such as the robust plugin marketplace and the wide variety of expertise and themes. However I grew so weary of dealing with the near constant onslaught of malware that I decided to...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket Download audio On this show I play a song by Edith Frost and explain why; we vacationed in Puerto Vallarta; I needed 10% more Spanish; we zip-lined and drank the history of coffee drinks and chilled; I am rebuilding...
read articleQuestions for Podcasters
Hey fellow podcasters, I am setting up two new podcast sites right now. I get to start over clean without all the cruft of my EGC site. If you had to do it all over again, what Wordpress podcasting plugin would you use? I have tried a number of them over time and am not sure which one to start over...
read articleJetpack Insanity
Wordpress Jetpack is telling me my site is up and down every 10 minutes for the last 24 hours. Is this happening to anyone...
read articlePositive Wordpress Plugin News
Last January, I tried an experiment over at Grand Strand Bloggers with the Digest Post plugin. I have a Yahoo Pipe that gathers together all of the RSS feeds for all of the blogs in the GSB blogroll. This plugin is supposed to take a feed and in automated fashion make a summary post of all the items...
read articlePopularity Contest: Wordpress Plugin Hall of Shame
Yesterday I had my first ever bad experience with a Wordpress plugin auto-upgrade and it was really really bad. I did the auto-upgrade of the Popularity Contest plugin, first upgrade in a very long time. These upgrades have become so routine that I don't much think twice about executing them any...
read articleAn Escrow System for Wordpress Plugins
Over on Grand Strand Bloggers, I want to try out this plugin that automatically makes digest posts. That is perfect for what we want to do. However, the plugin I"m trying to use is really half-baked and appears abandoned. I'd think about adding to this with our needs at GSB if there was a way...
read articleWordpress 2.7
I upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.7 tonight. It took me literally 3 minutes, and that includes downloading the backup files. I was using the Wordpress Automatic Updater plugin, but apparently this is the last time I'll need that because the functionality has been rolled into Wordpress itself. This...
read articleSettling in to 2.5
I hope this is the last post about Wordpress and the upgrade migration. The issues seem to be shaken out. If you do see something that doesn't work right, please drop me an email. Tags are now integrated. Andrew Herron wasn't sure if the tags I had set up from Ecto would actually push to and be...
read articleFirst Wordpress 2.5 Impressions
So far so good on the Wordpress upgrade and host migration. Ideally, one would be doing these things in smaller, more manageable pieces rather than all at once, but I had no choice. Once WP 2.5 was released, I no longer had the option of installing an older version with the Dreamhost installer so I...
read articleTag Test
I'm just curious about this. Ecto has tags on the side that I use occasionally, but they insert into the bottom of the post as a footer type deal. Now that I'm a version of Wordpress with tags built in, is the whole deal hooked together well enough that these will just recognized as Wordpress tags?...
read articlePopularity Contest It Is
I added in the sidebar the results of the Popularity Contest Wordpress plugin. If you look at a category, month or year view you'll see the most popular posts that fit those criteria. Otherwise, you'll see the most popular of all time. All time I tell you!! Actually, there is a three-way split in...
read articleWordpress Plugins for XMas
My buddy Jason is going Wordpress plugin crazy. To be honest, I hadn't heard of most of these but I'm willing to try most things. I've installed the Popularity Contest and Related Posts, just to see how they work. The popularity numbers are kind of bogus right now, since they only have a few hours...
read articleBDP Referral Tracker Update
I noticed recently that things with the referral tracker in the sidebar didn't seem to be working right. For example, despite a crapload of incoming traffic in the Ze-slide, none of those ever got counted. I went to look at the site for the plugin and I realized that the current version is 1.0.6 and...
read articleWordpress 2
When I set up the Uplifter weblog I downloaded the current Wordpress and went to work. That happens to be version 2.0, and I have to say it is quite sweet. I love the live preview of themes that lets you "try before you buy." It sure beats the old method of changing them in public, and...
read articleNew Plugin
I liked the referer plugin I had on the old blosxom blog, and I found a similar plugin for Wordpress. At the bottom of the right sidebar you should find all the inbound links as well as some stats and such. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to keep this, but for now I am playing with it. It does help me...
read articleComment Spam
The ongoing arms race with comment spammers is part of what made me leave blosxom for Wordpress. Last night I got the first bits of spam on the new blog, all of which went into the moderation queue and were dispatched and marked as spam with one click of the button. I've never been so happy to be...
read articleClambake Episode for May 30, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 30, 2005. Two in two days, unusual frequency for me lately! I talk about money; I play a song by Bullet Called Life; I hail a fallen comrade; I play a song from Camper Van Beethoven; I talk about the good life, keeping...
read articleBig Wordpress Omission
It seems from my early work that there is one huge omission in the out-of-the-box Wordpress install. It doesn't do the Last-Modified header, on either the web pages or the RSS. I'm of the opinion that everything that emits or reads an RSS feed MUST use or honor this header. When you have a few...
read articleFirst Big Wordpress Question
OK folks, here's the first thing I do need help with. I'm not sure if it is a Wordpress issue or an Ecto issue, but when I publish these posts, they are categorized as the category I select as well as Uncategorized each time, even when I pick only the one category plus set it to "primary."...
read articleTemptation
It's been tough to do the import of the blog to Wordpress early this morning and then lay off it all day since I, like, have to work and stuff. Maybe this evening I'll spend a few minutes browsing plugins and such. Expect a lot of turbidity in themes and stuff in the sidebars over the next few days...
read articleTest from Ecto
Here is the first post from Ecto, which was one of the straws that made me want to switch. This is a sweet app which I shall be registering shortly. The one thing I don't like about how the import happened is that my category tree each comes in as the whole tree as the name. I can go back and change...
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