Category Archives: Wordpress

Tech Note: Cloudbusting

Posted on October 21, 2011 by romkey

My blog runs on a piece of software called WordPress. I love WordPress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it’s also great for creating small simple web sites. I’ve recommended it … Continue reading →

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Nutrition Labels for WordPress

Posted on April 13, 2011 by romkey

Download I’ve just released a plugin for WordPress, wp-nutrition-label. It provides a WordPress shortcode which generates an HTML FDA-style nutrition label. For instance,

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How to Quote a Shortcode in WordPress

Posted on April 13, 2011 by romkey

WordPress offers a handy mechanism called a “shortcode”, which is a kind of macro. Shortcodes are supplied by WordPress itself and by plugins that extend WordPress’ functionality. You use a shortcode by simply writing it in your post or page … Continue reading →

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Eating My Own Dog Food

Posted on January 3, 2011 by romkey

For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use WordPress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site with just a few pages. The reason I’ve been suggesting … Continue reading →

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LJ Crossposting

Posted on October 30, 2008 by romkey

I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal and I haven’t really had the time to deal with fixing it. … If you’d rather that I didn’t cross-post, or didn’t cross-post everything, let me know and I’ll see what I can figure out about limiting it. … And for some reason my web server is uncooperative about providing me with useful errors in its logs (yes, I’ve double-checked the Apache configuration… it’s … something else). … LJ-XP has changed hands once or twice, and some of the older versions don’t point to the correct location for the current plugin (which is http://code.google.com/p/ljxp/ ). Continue reading →

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