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