Tag Archives: wordpress

Set WordPress image to “none”

Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Been using WordPress for a while now. Heck, this blog has been running WP since 2007. So it’s really sad that it took until today for me to figure this out. Putting an image inline to a post defaults to … Continue reading →

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Kicked out a quick WordPress plugin

Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Yesterday I went about trying to figure out how to get my latest Tweet up in the header of this site. After looking at a couple of dozen Twitter plugins for WordPress I decided to write my own when I … Continue reading →

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Finally installed WPTouch plugin

Posted on May 15th, 2011 by Ryan

Like about 2 million other people, I finally downloaded the WPTouch WordPress plugin allowing this site to have a phone friendly version. So far I’m liking it, and it looks much better than the other plugins and themes I checked … Continue reading →

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Starting a blog vs starting a forum

Posted on May 14th, 2011 by Ryan

I’m a bit addicted to starting web sites. While WordPress is my go to software, I’ve been leaning towards forum software recently. While I like the idea of blogging because I can put pretty much whatever I want online, I … Continue reading →

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a break from a larger web app I’m working on and this weekend kicked out a couple of WordPress plugins that I’ve had on my idea file for a while now. The first is called rTwit and lets you … Continue reading →

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JavaScript version of PHP __FILE__ or __DIR__

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

This is one of those issues I keep coming back to.  I need a way to get the path of the current JavaScript file.  Something analogous to the PHP __DIR__ constant or dirname(__FILE__). Found something close on Stack Overflow.  The … Continue reading →

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My checklist for setting up a WordPress site

Posted on January 8th, 2011 by Ryan

Found myself setting up another WordPress blog this afternoon – blatant link plug – and got to thinking that I do the same steps every time I setup a new blog, and probably should write them down.  So here are … Continue reading →

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’bout time for a new theme

Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Ryan

Seemed like a good time to change themes here… and after searching around for a couple of hours the one I liked best was the TwentyTen theme that comes with WordPress. Go figure. Needs a little more customization, but it’s … Continue reading →

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…and a test post with myWeblog

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Ryan

Found another offline WordPress editor to try on my MacBook. This time it’s myWeblog 2.1. I like the looks of it. Seems very Mac-like, which I suppose is a good thing. One of the things I’m most looking for, and … Continue reading →

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Do categories matter on blogs?

Posted on February 13th, 2010 by Ryan

Tags and categories seem to provide pretty much the same functionality on blogs. The only difference I can see is that a blog typically has a handful of categories, but may have hundreds of tags. With that, does it make … Continue reading →

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