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New versions of WordPress are pretty smart about strikethroughs
In this post I used megabytes when I should have used gigabytes. Sean noticed the error and mentioned it in comments. Different bloggers handle that in different ways. Some people would just change it. Since it came up in comments … Continue reading
WordPress RSS Feed Errors Fixed, Feedburner-powered Twitter Feed Working Again
Everything works now. You can skip the rest of this post unless you’re having the same problem and need a fix.
Strange Character Problem Fixed
Since moving the blog in December I’ve had a long-standing problem with special characters – things like curly quotes and em dashes – displaying incorrectly. I’ve tried fixing it on and off, but other things this year kept me from … Continue reading
WordPress Smart Quote Insanity
Since moving the blog I got quotation mark problems. Smart quotes are showing up as unknown characters. Example here: Efforts to fix that problem introduced other problems. Anyone know a bulletproof fix?
YouTube’s iframe embedding option causes problems with WordPress
Just a heads up. YouTube has switched their default embedding option from an object to an iframe. If you snag the embed code from the video’s popup panel you’ll still get the the Object code. It’s only when you’re on … Continue reading
Movin’ movin’ movin’
Some time Thursday this blog is moving to a new Web host and WordPress 3. I don’t expect any problems, but if you see anything quirky it’s probably because of the move.
Moving WordPress Sites to a New Server or Domain
A subject near and dear to my heart. I’m bookmarking some information for reference and hoping it can help someone else. First up, some useful links: How to move WordPress site to another server with zero downtime Howto Move WordPress … Continue reading
WordPress Links
I’m bookmarking all of these from Joost de Valk’s awesome WordPress newsletter. Highly recommended if you administer WordPress sites. Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions. WordPress 3.0 is multi-user out of the box, so every WordPress blog can now host … Continue reading
Tired: Sitemaps; Wired: Video Sitemaps
I had never heard of them. Joost de Valk has more info and plans for a WordPress plugin to generate video sitemaps.
Mobile site is working
Hit lesjones.com with your mobile phone. How does it look? UPDATE: I just realized some people may have seen just the regular site, because WP SuperCache was showing them the cached page of the regular site. (I wasn’t seeing the … Continue reading
What’s a Good Mobile/Smart Phone Plug-in for WordPress?
While I was on vacation I did some Web surfing with my Blackberry and my wife’s Android. It worked better than expected on the Android. (The Blackberry’s screen is too tiny for most sites.) I’d like to make my site … Continue reading
All In One SEO Pack for WordPress is a Pig
I’m just about to launch a new WordPress site at work and I’m tuning everything to be as fast as possible. In trying to track down inconsistent performance I installed WP Tuner and discovered that the All In One SEO … Continue reading
Scott Kelby: don’t let WordPress resize your photos
Scott Kelby discovers that WordPress’s automated preview generator is noticeably less sharp than what he gets from Adobe Photoshop. WordPress also strips out the EXIF data in the preview. I use it anyway for the convenience, but YMMV.
You first
WordPress 2.8 is out. Announcement and full feature list. There are more features and it’s supposed to be faster. I’ll probably wait a bit to let some of the inevitable new release bugs get worked out. I just upgraded to … Continue reading
Is anyone accessing LesJones.com from a mobile device?
I ask because the MobilePress plug-in is using hella database time. The blog is still accessible without it. With the MobilePress plug-in you get a list of the most recent posts. Without it you get the front page, more or … Continue reading
Optimizing WordPress database performance
Some ideas from Joost de Valk. Good ideas in comments, too. I’ll give a big thumbsup to WP-DBManager, which solved some of my WordPress CPU usage issues. It can repair, optimize, and backup databases through your WordPress interface.
Converting HTML designs to WordPress
Good instructions here. Looks pretty straightforward. And another resource: 10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress Theme.
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