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"Press This" bug

The Press This bookmarklet sends you to a page using white text on a white background in Safari. It may seem like it isn't there, but by selecting the textbox the text in the editor reveals it is functioning properly, whiteness of text aside. One option is saving as a draft and then going into the admin page and editing it allows you to see the text that wordpress accidentally hides. A better temporary fix for me is to edit the press-this.php file located in the wp-admin folder. I changed this Read more [...]

The Perils of Using a Free WordPress Theme

Take a look at what happened to this blog's hit counts after switching (briefly) to a new and free WordPress theme downloaded from the official WordPress website. Before I used my own variation of the freely available sandbox theme. I switched after updating the template andlosing some of my work on it. Now I've gone back with though I haven't put any real effort into making the site look "good." Since replacing the theme, my site's stats have returned to normal. I won't name the theme that killed Read more [...]

A Temporary Fix to Keep WordPress XHTML Friendly

Today I discovered two bugs in wordpress that keep it from being valid xhtml. Fortunately a kind person offered a fix right in the comments of the bug report. Read more [...]

Update to Picased the WordPress Picasa Widget

Picasaed has been updated to version 0.4 Picasaed works pretty much the same as the Flickr Widget, but doesn't use tables, because no one likes tables. Read more [...]

Google's Emotionless Blogspot Robots Kill Google's Blog

A friend of mine recently told me about some troubles he had when Blogspot's spam detection system decided that his blog was a sblog (spam blog). What makes things worse is that folks can't easily backup a blogspot blog, though they do offer a complicated ten step procedure to save your blog. Read more [...]

XAlign, A TinyMCE Fix for WordPress

Here’s the list It is not valid strict xhtml It is deprecated transitional xhtml It does not function as expected across browsers in all cases Anyone writing new code should aim to have valid strict xhtml. Read more [...]

reCAPTCHA: Captcha with point

We've all been to sites which require a user to type in a word to prove that she isn't a evil spam robot, well that verification system is called CAPTCHA. Read more [...]

Picasaed, the WordPress Picasa Widget has Been Updated

Picasaed has been updated to version 0.3 Picasaed works pretty much the same as the Flickr Widget, but doesn't use tables, because no one likes tables. The images also link directly to the image in on Picasa Web now. Read more [...]

A Picasa Widget that Works

As far as I can tell there are only two Picasa widgets, and as far as I can tell neither of them work. Picasaed works pretty much the same as the Flickr Widget, but doesn't use tables, because no one likes tables. Read more [...]