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I recently wrote about what runs this silly place. One of the things I mentioned (okay listed in FULL) was the list of plugins that I currently use on my Wordpress blog.

Changes:

removed

  • Extended Live Archives (I wanted a different look)
  • Related Posts (WP 2.3 broke it, like the get_links function)

added

So far so good. If you’ve noticed a few images on older posts not showing, its partly my fault for not properly uploading them to my host. There seems to be an issue with directory permissions that I’ve still got to sort out with the built in image uploader as well, but I’ll figure that out. I’m sure that’s also my fault.

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Posted by mrcorey on 6 May 2007 at 12:42 pm under Site.
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To answer your question, Macbros,

I am hosted with a company called DSTinternet, and yes they’re fast! I did a lot of research before I unleashed my wallet on them and I couldn’t find enough negative about this company to not use them. The pricing seems to fit my budget and the features are fantastic! The company responds to support requests nearly instantly via the chat box off the site. I haven’t tried phone support yet, so I don’t know if the number will be reachable from Canada. My only gripe is that the use the Plesk control panel and I’m used to cPanel. I’ll have to see if I can simply add IP addresses to a ban list, as I can with cPanel, or if I have to add them to my .htaccess file manually (which I will, you spammers!). They allow FTP access so whatever!

As far as the rest,

This site runs on Wordpress. I usually am running a nightly build from the development repository. I’m not quite nutso enough (but close) to go with SVN commits, but the snapshot may not work for me every time either. I test the installation with similar plugins and theming on my own computer before I replace what’s working on this site. I don’t “upgrade” every night - more likely every 10 days or so. The current version is 2.3 alpha.

I am using a completely hacked and modified version of the Fresh theme, which was ported to Wordpress by LEMONed from the original design by Wolfgang Bartelme. I haven’t even left the structure intact, as I’ve moved stuff all over the place. The theme is based on a header, footer, body, subfooter, and sidebar. It has 3 sidebars (2 custom ones for individual pages, to which I employ the Page Template function) and 3 footer/subfooters. It will not always be the one I use. There’s something being cooked up in the background…

This site uses these plugins:

For the moment, that’s all, but I will be changing and moving things around now and then. I have more plugins installed but not activated.

That’s about it for now.  If I’ve left anything out, I may add to this post later.

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Posted by mrcorey on 29 April 2007 at 10:27 pm under Site.
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I’ve updated to the latest Wordpress nightly build, which is 2.3 alpha.  It seems stable so far, but you can tell me if its otherwise.  Looks like the first comment spammer scraped my feed since the move.  That’s a sure sign of DNS propagation, then.  Carry on.  Next post will be meaningful to more than just geeks.  I promise (maybe some mention of fuzzy puppies, or something).

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Posted by mrcorey on 26 April 2007 at 8:27 am under Geeky---run-now, Site.
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Since the introduction of Wordpress 2.1, post categories and link categories got merged. wp_links_list and get_links tags have been depreciated in favor of a new tag wp_list_bookmarks. From what I can see (thanks to the Codex article on this tag) the arguments seem to be more logical and useful than the predecessors. I dragged my heels on changing the tag in my current theme as I didn’t know what variables I could work with. If you noticed before (and its really shouldn’t have been obvious, except that it was helpful and pleasing), I had ordered some of my links by length of the link title from shortest to longest (to look good) and some were random. I don’t know if you noticed. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t. You weren’t supposed to.

With the newer tag, your commands are more organized and quite easy to implement. For example, if you want to list links by category, you’d want to pass the argument “categorize” as true (true=1, false=0). So, the code would look like:
wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=1')
This will list your links by category. With no further granularity, your blogroll will be displayed with headings to match the categories you’ve listed your links as. If you want to be pickier, as I have, you can call the tag and specify certain categories, as I have. My link category for often visited blogs is “Daily Visits.” Wordpress treats this as category 15 on my site. Yours will be different. (hint: if you want to know the category ID for a certain link cat, just hover your mouse over the category of a link in your “blogroll” or /sitename/wp-admin/link-manager.php file and the ID# will be the end of the URL you see - as with everything in life, you should pay attention to the details). I display mine separately by specifying the parameter category=15. That displays that link category only.

Now, I’ve ordered the links randomly (on purpose) with the orderby parameter. See the Richard’s SEO articles on Untwistedvortex.com. That is to display only a certain number of links with the limit= parameter. If you specify a number fewer than your actual links list and you specify a random view, the Search Engines will think that your site is active and updated often. I’m still fine tuning the process and will also be setting up a better links page. But, in the mantime, if you don’t see the link you want, hit F5.

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Posted by mrcorey on 23 April 2007 at 11:15 pm under Geeky---run-now, Site.
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I’ve uploaded tonight’s build of Wordpress to this site. It seems that there’s an Ultimate Tag Warrior tag importer and UTW has also been upgraded. I’ve upgraded both and they seem to be behaving together so far. There was a conflict before because both called the same function. It seems to be resolved. But, saying that, this is code that was written as late as today. If anything doesn’t work as expected, drop me an email please.

Interestingly enough, just after I did this, I noticed that 2.2 will be delayed to get things polished up.  I’ve noticed, though, that the wp-testers mailing list has slowed down significantly lately.  All the conversation must now be on IRC.

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Posted by mrcorey on 18 April 2007 at 10:05 pm under Site.
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I’ve upgraded this site to use the March 30, 2007 Nightly build of Wordpress (2.2 Bleeding Edge).  Something in the code has caused incompatibilities with the Ultimate Tag Warrior Plug in.  So, this is the most recent version that will work.  This is the first move since I “upgraded” to the 2.2 builds on March 7.

Let me know if the site behaves differently.  BTW, 2.2 should be out later this month - around the 21st or so - providing show stoppers like the UTW breakage is fixed.

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Posted by mrcorey on 6 April 2007 at 4:33 pm under Site.
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I’ve moved this weblog to the Wordpress 2.2 platform. Its bleeding edge and could be buggy, but it stood up on my home server reasonably well. Let me know if it feels different. I may upload the files about once a week, so there is a chance of breakage. If nothing changes, that’s good. If its faster, that’s good. Feedback welcome.

I’ve also upgraded Bad Behavior to 2.0.10. Email me if you can’t comment or whatever.

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Posted by mrcorey on 7 March 2007 at 12:09 am under Geeky---run-now, Site.
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