Archive for the 'wordpress' Category

While trying to give examples of code in the last couple of posts I found out an interesting typographical feature of WordPress. A single hyphen is rendered as a hyphen, two hyphens are rendered as an en dash and three hyphens are rendered as an em dash.

Which means trying to show examples with conditional comments, when ever I typed <!– it rendered as < !– and the difference as you can see if difficult to pick between <!- and < !–

There have been a couple of minor changes to this blog. You probably will not even noticed them, they are changes under the hood. Again they where the result of I should practise what I preach.

I ended up discussing hierarchical document structure and the use of heading tags over at Port:80 with Andrew Tetlaw aka atelaw. I am of the opinion that each page should have a single h1 tag which reflects the purpose of the page (ie the title) and document structure should be hierarchical from there. Navigation should not normally be part of the document structure and therefore not be contained in heading tags. The obvious exceptions are navigation pages, such as a homepage or an archive page.

Kay said some nice things about Flock so I thought I better take it for a spin. It was also time to investigate a replacement for the Sage RSS reader in Firefox I have been having some odd problems there lately and my first attempt at a replacement with Orangoo was an interesting experience. And it was also time to tidy up my bookmarks and make use of my del.icio.us account.

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Things have been a little quiet round here lately, mainly because I write most of my posts on the uninteruppted 35 minute bus ride to and from work. However in the last week the rides have been spent investigating RSS aggregators and testing them on my trusty powerbook.

What I am looking for is to take feeds from a variety of sources and put them into a single feed or feeds.

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For those of you reading the RSS feed, you will of noticed a change from summary
to full posts. I have made the change because of the number of people taking the
RSS feeds. Don’t worry if you want to keep the summary feeds because they are
still available.

• RSS2 Summary
• Atom Summary

I n order to learn more about WordPress and to try and limit my experimentations on the live server, I decided to run a duplicate copy of this blog on my PowerBook.

Everything was fairly easy, except Permalinks not working, it had to do with mod_write module on my Apache server