stuff on wordpress

wordpress 2.2.x on yahoo webhosting

Monday, 20 August 2007 12:12 am by noel
posted in wordpress

i’ve been stuck with wordpress 2.0.2 for the longest time while version 2.2.2 came out about two weeks ago (as of this writing). its frustrating to wait for yahoo! to upgrade to the latest version.
i dislike waiting. immensely.
so i decided to try my luck at upgrading a wp 2.0.2 to version 2.2.2.
it took some time [...]

askimet going whacked

Tuesday, 12 December 2006 8:48 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, wordpress

for the past few days, askimet — the plug-in filtering out comment spam on this log — has been naughty. it reset my spam counter a week ago and again yesterday. i also noticed a surge in comment spam — in one day it went up 230+, although the counter says it has caught 223 [...]

an rss fed home page

Friday, 20 October 2006 10:14 pm by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i am in the process of revising the home page of the domain and i thought that putting the headlines of my we+blog in my section of the home page would be cool.
what i wanted to do was to take the rss feed from this blog, mash it up and just show bits of it [...]

more widgets

Wednesday, 6 September 2006 1:32 am by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i needed to put some php into the sidebar of one of the blog-turned-into-news site (using wordpress) i am managing parttime. i was already using widgets in that site so editing the sidebar.php will not work. the solution is another widget.
and i found several gems in media projekt — a media company based in germany. [...]

kubrick mirrored (sort of)

Saturday, 6 May 2006 8:51 pm by noel
posted in theme, wordpress

i was playing around with css and i thought i wanted to see a kubrick (wordpress 2.0 default theme) with the sidebar on the left. the theme i’m using is already based on (right sidebar) kubrick and i’m generally comfortable with it. but sometimes things itches so i made a “play blog” where i can [...]