If you read the post up from this you’ll see that I just tried out Qumana and wasn’t all that happy with it. It was nice to be able to blog without logging into WordPress, but it had a couple of deal breakers for me.
Unfortunately none of the free solutions I’ve come across have looked to do what I wanted. So it’s off to try a few of the free demos. The first one I’m looking at is MarsEdit. Read the rest of this entry »
Trying something new again. The WordPress iPhone app that I posted about a few days ago was nice, but it doens’t work well for longer posts. Nothing against the app. But I can type pretty quickly and it’s frustrating to have to slow down for the little keyboard. Fortunately I have my MacBook with me pretty much 24/7 so I’m giving an offline editor a try.
The one I’m trying right now is a free one called Qumana. It looks like it’s a way to get bloggers to use their ad network, but it doesn’t seem that you have to. Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s see how this goes. I’m writing my first blog post from my iPhone. A few months ago I tried the Wordpress app version 1 point something. Couldn’t figure out if it supported tag, and I prefer using tags over categories. Fortunately I came across version 2.1 today and it works without a hitch.
After using nothing but PCs for the past 15 or so years, getting a MacBook has given me a little more of a learning curve that I was expecting. Fortunately it’s been pretty intuitive and hasn’t been that bad. But there’s been one little snag that kept catching me.
By default the tab key does not stop at select / dropdown menus on forms. And as I tend to tab through forms pretty quickly it’s caught me several times entering data into the wrong fields. Fortunately, with the help of Google and this page I found a solution.
Simply go to the Keyboard section under System Preferences and select All Controls on the bottom. That’s it. 
Well, I am for now.
I noticed Baidu pretty much on a forum of mine 24/7, but I didn’t recall ever seeing them show up in the referrer logs. Over the past year, across the sites on my server, they’ve made almost 35,000 requests for pages; chewed up 337 megs of bandwidth, admittedly not a big amount; and sent 1 referral. And the forum I first noticed it on only has the home page indexed. So since it doesn’t seem to be doing anything for my English language sites, it’s going to start getting blocked. Maybe I’ll change my mind down the road.
Didn’t know this was around, but looking for older versions of WordPress to test plugins against I found the WordPress release archive. Looks like you can find pretty much every release they’ve put out.
A few years ago I got on a kick making simple Photoshop templates and threw up a website to try and sell a few. I had no illusions that my templates were of the level that were being sold for $20+ so I went with a type of credit system similar to what iStockPhoto.com does. A visitor buys a set of credits and uses those credits to buy templates. Seemed like a simple process and after a little tinkering with WordPress I had a working setup.
But after two years only 3 people had bought credits and I had made a whopping 12 bucks. Read the rest of this entry »
After spending the better part of yesterday getting a forum setup with the same layout as its parent WordPress site I thought I’d share a couple of tips along the way.
And I picked a less efficient way, including wp-blog-header.php in the forum code, because it was far easier. At some point I may go back and cache the WordPress pieces on the blog side and use those cache files on the SMF side, at which point none of this would be necessary. But for now it’s working.
Meet Christine. This is the first WordPress theme that I’ve done that’s getting released. I’ve done probably a dozen themes for various sites but never sat down until now with the intent of doing one to share.
You can download it from Reliti.com