Tag 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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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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A Few Notes on the Sidebar

Posted on September 7, 2008 by romkey

The second problem was that they all loaded their info in real time, which meant it could take minutes to load a dot-dot-romkey page. … So I started using the Feedcache plugin, which uses a cron job to read a list of feeds and store the results in a database, which Wordpress can simply read from when it generates the page. … I’d also like to do more formatting that’s appropriate to the site: on Twitter, there’s no need to have my name first on every line. … For now, though, I have more important things to do than fuss with the sidebar, so this is the way it will remain for the time being. Continue reading →

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