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OpenID Plugin and WordPress 2.8
Ever since using the nightly versions of WordPress, I got used to doing regular updates and not checking if all plugins work fine afterward.
Therefore only today I discovered that leaving comments on this blog has been impossible for a while already. Turns out that changes in the WordPress core have made the OpenID plugin unaware of the comment author’s name and e-mail.
Haven’t found a solution yet. Read more »
Is iPhone 3G “S” Slow or Small?
Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing iPhone 3G S for the first time I immediately associated “S” with size Small.
These days no one considers a phone “smart” if it’s slow or doesn’t have support for 3G. So what does Apple exactly mean by saying iPhone 3G Speed? Where the previous versions slow?
How about calling it iPhone 4, 5, 6, … n.
Free Software, GPL and WordPress
If you want to know what the spirit of GPL and Free Software is, listen to what Stephen Fry and Richard Stallman have to say. These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or license can fully define them. You have to sense them.
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Widget Context Plugin for WordPress 2.8
If you are using my Widget Context plugin and you have just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Beta, please use this new version of Widget Context plugin.
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Quick Reply Templates Plugin and WordPress 2.8
Quick Reply Templates is a really useful WordPress plugin by Paul William that allows you to have a predefined comment reply template, such as <a href="#commend-id">@Name</a>, that will be filled out automatically when you reply to a comment within your WordPress Dashboard or Edit Comments page. Read more »
CSS @Imports Suck
I have never used them, and here is why you shouldn’t use CSS @imports too. Via Monday By Noon.
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Digital Britain and USB Flash Drives
Digital Britain logo
While the ideas behind the Digital Britain initiative are really great and noble, its logo is quite the opposite — what is the connection between a flash drive and an open access to information and its distribution networks?
Every letter in the logo is supposed to symbolize a node attached to Britain’s information network, which sounds like a good explanation until you put it on a USB thumb drive. Read more »
Remove Border from Image Links
For illustrating anchor links in some cases you might want to use bottom-border instead of a default text-decoration:underline. In order to achieve that, one would use the following CSS rule:
a { text-decoration:none; border-bottom:2px solid; }
which also adds border to the bottom of all linked images. In order to remove it, you would think that setting
a img { border:none; }
would be enough. Read more »
WordPress Admin Header Design Tweak, Take Two
After looking at all the submissions for the WordPress Admin Design Tweak Poll I have updated my entry leaving Panel and Help buttons as they currently are in WordPress 2.7.1. The only change necessary in HTML structure would be moving #favorite-actions out of #wphead-info. Read more »
Tweaking WordPress Admin Header
One of the important ideas behind the WordPress 2.7 administration area redesign was to maximize the amount of information and input fields above the ‘fold’. While the current design does the job well, there is still some room for improvements. Read more »
Matt Mullenweg Tonight on WordPress Weekly
Join Jeff and Matt tonight at 20:00 EST or 00:00 GMT on WordPress Weekly. Listen and chat live in your browser or use any of the alternative methods.
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The Future of Media is Linux
All e-book readers to be released in 2009 will have Linux as their operating system. Can it really be that Microsoft and Apple have already missed it? Could they have not realized that all traditional media as we know it today will be on these devices in just a few years time? Is Linux really becoming the industry standard? Read more »
Open Source Logo for Labeling Things and Ideas Made in Latvia
Do you create things and ideas here in Latvia? If so, let the world know where they come from — label them using this open source ‘Made in Latvia’ logo:
Design on April 2009
For future reference: this is how this blog looked on April 2009: Read more »
Display Widgets Only on Certain Pages
In WordPress it requires only two steps:
- Install the Widget Context plugin, and
- specify the visibility settings for each widget.
WordPress 2.8 bleeding-edge and WordPress_Module::_weak_escape()
After upgrading to 2.8-beeding-edge I got the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WordPress_Module::_weak_escape()
in ../wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 473
Disabling Redirection plugin solved the problem. Could it be that Redirection also defines _weak_escape() or escape()? Server ir running PHP 5.2.6.
Widget Context Update — Word Count Check
Jeff said he might switch, so I had to update the Widget Context plugin to fix the problem of widget settings not being when adding the widget for the first time, and added a new feature which enables you to show or hide a widget if the blog post has more or less then certain number of words.
Please note the new feature that checks for a word count in a post works perfectly only on single post view (when the full article is displayed) and makes only an estimate when paginated archive or index page is being viewed. The reason for this is that your theme can alter the ‘typical’ number of words that archive pages should display, which is everything above the <!--more--> tag.
Cite, Quote and Twitter
Why doesn’t twitter use <cite> tag for all @replies and <blockquote> for the actual content? It would make things more semantic. Read more »
MediaTemple’s Disappointing Grid
Since the very first day this website has been hosted at MediaTemple. Back then it was a simple shared hosting account for a good price and a lot of good and well earned hype. Almost a year ago they started switching to a grid infrastructure which was said to be able to allocate enough computing power for every grid member no matter what the neighboring cells are doing. Read more »
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