February 2011

Every WordPress upgrade brings howls of anguish on Twitter and other forums as installations that were working perfectly well prior to the upgrade suddenly crash. Some people ignore WordPress upgrades in order to avoid the problems – if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But that’s not smart because many of the upgrades are designed [...]

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As frustrating and irritating as I often find Google and its services to be, it does have some good ones. Such as Picasa. One of my clients is a bar and restaurant here in Hong Kong and they often take pictures of parties and other events they hold. Being in the F & B industry, [...]

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I moved this site from the /blog folder to the root folder recently. The main reason was to tidy up this domain and, in the process, improve its focus. That, I hope, will improve the effectiveness of its SEO. I’ve had this domain for 5 years and during that time I’ve had different folders and [...]

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Back in version 1.7 Thesis introduced the ability to set custom META titles, descriptions and keywords for each post and page. As I wrote here, this enabled me to drop the SEO plugins I was previously using on this site. So for those Thesis users who are thinking of dropping your SEO plugins, or for [...]

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Thesis gives you a lot of control over your navigation bar. You can adjust colours and fonts (which you do through the Design Options screen) and you can adjust the labels. Adjusting your navigation bar labels, and defining which ones should appear in your navigation menu, is done through the Site Options screen. Here’s where [...]

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Here’s something to try if you have an article that’s being spammed with pingbacks. I woke up yesterday morning to find more than 600 pingback spams on a single article. I emptied the spam folder and half an hour later there were 22 more! Luckily Akismet was doing its stuff and sending these pingbacks to [...]

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One of my customers had a header and footer specially designed for their Thesis site recently. And they wanted to know how to change the settings in Thesis so it displaid the new image properly, given that it’s a different size. This is a pretty simple process that involves going to your Thesis Design Options [...]

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