Wordpress
Many (but not all) Web 2.0 sites provide little badges or widgets to insert in your own blog and thereby link to those sites. Additionally, we are spoilt for choice with all those designer-made eye-candy badges, like a cute little blue bird asking your readers to follow you on Twitter. After coming across Ben Godfrey‘s [...]
I finally became reasonable and admitted to myself that there is no point in maintaining two separate blogs about Computing, this one and one on digital art, especially if the latter had so few updates. I hence looked for a way to transfer all the content from that blog to this one. A quick search [...]
For my new stamp blog, I looked for a highly visual layout, and came across The Unstandard, a WordPress theme that influenced others. The basic idea is that each blog post is represented by a single image in the index pages (i.e. the home, archive, category, tag and search result pages), instead of being inserted [...]
A few days ago, the forecast for today was a hot sunny day, to properly mark the start of Summer. In turned out to be a windy overcast morning and a warm sunny evening with a light breeze, at least in my neck of the woods. Although today felt more like early Fall (my favourite [...]
It’s been over 1 month since I wrote here but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been blogging; I just have been writing elsewhere, namely in my games blog (follow the ludossier link on the sidebar). Today I upgraded my three blogs to WordPress 2.7, which has a completely redesigned Dashboard, easier to use and with [...]
A WordPress blog can have one or two sidebars, each divided into several parts: search box, list of pages, monthly archives, links to external sites and blogs, etc. The content of each part is generated by a widget. To decide which widgets should be used, go into the Design > Widgets sub-panel. You’ll see on [...]
Earlier this week, I was invited to the programme committee of the industrial track of the major academic software engineering conference. I logged into the blog to add the event to the Upcoming Events page. But, surprise, surprise, there was a little red balloon over the Comments sub-panel button, telling me I had 3 comments [...]
Now that the web host move is out of my way, I can resume where I left off one week ago: organising the sidebar links. The default WordPress installation shows on the sidebar several links to wordpress.org pages (documentation, etc.), all under the heading ‘Blogroll’. That is actually a slight misnomer, because a blogroll is [...]
This weekend I started using a new web hosting provider, as the previous one was having too much downtime for my liking. A WordPress blog consists of a lot of PHP files that provide the funtionality, the files that have been uploaded to the blog, and a MySQL database that stores all posts, pages, and [...]
A permalink (short for permanent link) is a permanent URL to a webpage, contrary to a URL that may change between different accesses to the webpage. For example, in the early days of blogging, the URL of a post would change when the post moved from the front page to the archives. By default, the [...]