I couldn't embed thumbnail sizes on my new WordPress install on my new Ubuntu server; I could only embed the original size (which was 3072×2048). The options to embed other sizes were just grayed out. It turns out that the default LAMP install doesn't include php-gd, the graphics library that creates thumbnails. Well… I guess [...]
I've heard it said that if you copy from only one source then it's called plagiarism, but if you copy from multiple sources then it's called research. Well, by researching Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog I found a great, simple way to frame code on Everything is Crap. First, the CSS: code { border:2px silver [...]
After flirting with Windows as a WordPress server we've realized that, since we went to the trouble of learning Linux, it's now easier to use Linux. So, Everything is Crap is back to Ubuntu and it's delicious. Would you like an Ubuntu? You might want some milk to help wash it down.
So, Windows doesn't work well for WordPress. The more plug-ins I install, the more I realize that the world of WordPress is still a Linux-based world. We'll keep Everything is Crap on Windows because our needs are simple for this blog. But, in the future, all my WordPress are belong to Ubuntu. But, because Everything [...]
I hit another snag moving WordPress to Windows 2003/IIS6; media uploads don't work. (Interestingly, this doesn't seem to be a problem with Windows 2008/IIS7.) The fix involves creating a temp folder, as Joseph Scott's blog explains: Edit upload_tmp_dir option in php.ini. In my case I created an uploads folder in the wwwroot: upload_tmp_dir = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads" [...]
One of the most famous pains-in-the-neck associated with installing WordPress is getting the Apache mod_rewrite to work. It's not automatic. I've talked about mod_rewrite already in a previous post, but I recently moved to a Windows WordPress installation, and that changes things. In Windows Server 2008/IIS7, WordPress tells you what you need to do. If [...]
Now that I know how to do it, I'm getting fed up with LAMP as a web platform. I much prefer Windows. (What can I say? I'm a Windows guy!) And I recently stumbled into the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. It makes installing WordPress embarrassingly simple. Just run the installer and it does everything for [...]
May
WordPress Goodies!
We've been working with WordPress a lot recently and one thing we've discovered is that the WordPress plugin directory doesn't do a good job at pointing bloggers to the right plugins. So here's a list of a few of them that we have in use right now: underConstruction Author: Jeremy Massel This plugin displays a [...]
I found plenty of people out there who have had this problem, where you try to install a new plug in and it asks you to enter your FTP credentials and says, "To perform the requested action, connection information is required." Well, here's what I did to fix it. I added the following to wp_config.php: define('FS_METHOD', [...]
It's easy to make a new template that you can pick for certain pages on your WordPress blog. Write the code you want for your new page. If you want to keep the same general look of the other pages and just make a small change, you can start with page.php (which should be in [...]