Tag: wordpress
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Changing the header image in Kubrick
I changed the header image on this site recently. I had been using the default blue image which ships with Kubrick (the default theme which ships with WordPress 1.5). I am not a graphic designer and I don’t have graphic design tools at my disposal so I needed a method of doing this which was…
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Boost Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) using Permalinks
Permalinks are a feature of most blogging applications – they are are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, categories and other lists of weblog postings. For instance, the Permalink for the listing of all the posts I have written in the Search Engine Optimisation category is: tomrafteryit.net/category/search-engine-optimisation/ In WordPress, you can control how…
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Logged in as . Logout and anonymous comments
I noticed recently that people commenting on this site were not leaving their names. That is not so unusual except that there were so many anonymous comments. I decided to look into it to see if I could see why. I am always logged into my blog admin site so when I browse to a…
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Using WordPress as a CMS – More problems sorted
WordPress is the Content Manangement System (CMS) used to produce this site but shoehorning it to produce a complete site can cause unforseen problems. For example, my Permalink structure was denying me access to my awstats folder! Why? – this is because I’m publishing the site using WordPress 1.5 and it’s mod_rewrite (created by the…
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Comment spam plugins no longer required!
I have written many posts on my battles with WordPress comment spam but all that appears to be coming to a very satisfactory solution. I am now no longer using any comment spam plugins and I have stopped moderating comments on this blog. How did I get to this enviable position? Well, it has been…
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WordPress theme Rubric updated for WordPress 1.5
I had a WordPress template called Rubric on my WordPress 1.2 site. I hacked it a bit to work for me (adding css to show Amazon links within posts etc.). On upgrading to WP 1.5, I followed the very straightforward upgrading old WordPress templates instructions and suddenly I had Rubric in WP 1.5. I have…