All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

WordPress


WordPress theme designer needed

My friend, Jordan Ross from Respond Clothing, would like a custom theme. They thought they were going to have a Flash website1, so the current theme was temporary.
Now, K2 isn’t supported with WordPress 2.5. I need to upgrade them, so that’s my logic behind this.
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He said he’s making his own Flash banner, so I’m sure [...]

WordPress 2.5 is slick

WordPress 2.5 here works just fine. It took a little over 8 minutes, but most of it was backing up the database and site files. I’m still using the The Instant Upgrade plugin by Zirona.
You can try the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin — I’d actually suggest that one over the Zirona plugin because it’s in [...]

Switched themes, less categories

Yesterday, I switched to a new WordPress theme because I wanted a better emphasis on my photography. I went from K2 to the DePo Skinny Theme. My latest Flickr photos are at the top now. Very cool.
*** If you’re not seeing this change or things look messed up, do a hard refresh in your browser. [...]

reCAPTCHA - yay or nay?

I’m utilizing reCAPTCHA to stop comment and/or email spam by “reading books”. (If you don’t know what a CAPTCHA is, their website explains it comprehensively.) Installing the plugin and getting the API keys were simple.
The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then, to make them searchable, transformed into text using “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). [...]

Theme keeps reverting to Default

I updated this blog to WordPress 2.2. However, the theme keeps reverting from K2 to Default. I don’t know why.
If you can offer any help or point me in some direction, that’d be awesome. (I won’t be home for a few hours, so I’ll be out of touch until then.)
These are the plugins currently installed:
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Improve your blog comment conversations

You know I use Bloglines. However, I still find it a hindrance to subscribe to comments for a specific blog post using RSS.
I tried coComment a long time ago. I didn’t like it. (Is it better now?)
Teach me something. Do you subscribe to comments? What the easiest way?
I love subscribing to comments with e-mail. The [...]

Clicking “Edit” for blog posts loads blank

Yesterday, I had a problem with editing posts. I’d click “edit”, then the next page would load blank.
Solution: Disable Clutter Free (by Mark Jaquith), which “is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use. Instead of being minimized (and still taking up room), they’ll be [...]

Tracking site stats with Automattic Stats

I installed Automattic Stats last night. It seems to work just fine. Upload, activate, enter your WordPress.com API key, and you’re done!
What’s odd about it is that I don’t see the smiley its supposed to place at the bottom of each page. It works, so I’m not complaining!
Update 4:26pm 5/7/07: Duh! If you’re logged in, [...]

Slow down comment posting, cowboy?

I was trying to test the “Subscribe to Comments 2.1” plugin I just installed — because K2 has built-in support for it — and I’m getting a lame error that shouldn’t be happening.
So, I’m logged out. I make a quick comment, using my non-blog email address, then subscribe to comments. Then, after waiting a minute, [...]

WordPress plugins I use

Like Merlin Mann, I’ve bookmarked the plugins I use here at del.icio.us as “pluginsiuse”. Just thought you’d like to know.

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