Setting up wordpress

Since I’m running through the wordpress install again, I figured I’d take Marc’s advice and ‘blog my changes’. Plugins: Ultimate tag warrior feedburner related posts seo title tag sitemap widgets Tarski links widget Popularity Contest (disable visible rankings for external viewers) Tarski theme: Edit footer.php to remove the recent entries section and lower sidebar. Edit sidebar.php to always show the “Main Sidebar” widget thing, and only show the “Widget Footer” one for the front page, to make the sidebar shorter for individual posts. »

Gratuitous kitty photo

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr- frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Spook in her box tunnel, originally uploaded by James Bowes. I’m still playing around with the new hotness that is wordpress. This is me using the ‘blog this’ feature in flickr. Above is our girl cat, spook, playing in a tunnel made from free cardboard boxes, sent to us from eBay and the USPS. »

New hosting

I’ve moved my blog and associated pages from Dal CS to the dangerously incompetent data center. Also, I’ve moved it from pybloxsom to wordpress, mainly because of what Marc has written about it. So far I’m very impressed. The most difficult thing has been setting up redirects from my old cs pages to these new ones, due to the apache configuration at Dal. I’ve had to do silly things like making a directory called “cv.html”, and placing an index.php file in there that will write out redirect headers. »

Upgrading

Following last week’s Planet upgrade, I’ve upgraded my blog to the latest release of PyBlosxom. Nothing seems much different, except its newer. »