Aug
11
2009
I’ve spent about a week fixing, tweaking, uploading and changing things so that (almost all) my images will come from flickr.com. I’ve had a pro-account for over 5 years and got tired of maintaining my own galleries and images on my site. I upload most of it to flickr anyway, so I figured ‘Why not?’.
I really looked at reasons ‘why not’ and none of them seemed that much of a problem. – Flickr may stop working (yes, so may my site) – Flickr may do Bad Things to my images (currently, I don’t believe that they will. In the future, maybe, so far, I’ve had no problem with the site and I don’t expect any.) – <insert other reason> (yeah uhm whatever)
I’ve installed the Wordpress Flickr Manager plugin to help with the fancy stuff. It gives me an ‘flickr-browser’ in my post-edit screen so I can easily add a photo or two. Ofcourse I just figured out the HTML and edited flickr’s ‘send-to-log’ layout to match the HTML.
I’ll have to work back and edit older posts to match everything (I hate inconsistency) so it does increase the amount of work for a little bit. But after that, easy peasy photos in my post, woohoo.
I’ve tested Flickr’s send-to-blog (actually, the ‘e-mail-your-photo-and-send-that-to-your-blog’) feature with a bunch of photos over the past few days and it worked like a charm. Which makes me want to post more little photos and such.
Not sure if that’s a good thing… ;)
Dec
28
2008
To make my blog easier to navigate and fix some issues I had with the lay-out or how things worked in general, I looked into optimising as much as possible. I installed the plugin to make it easier to view my website on a phone-browser. With the help of Joost’s guide to Wordpress SEO I tweaked more things, including making my urls shorter (I like that), upgraded my theme to allow the new threaded comments in Wordpress 2.7, installing a plugin to check on old links that may not work because of the changes I made and a pager at the bottom to more easily navigate to older pages.
Apart from this I also installed several of Joost’s plugins because very handily he had made the ones I looked for (social bookmarks, breadcrumbs).
Lastly, I went and made a favicon that fits me. Anyone recognise it? :)
Dec
17
2008
I updated Wordpress again, to 2.7. I also downloaded the app for my iphone and played with that a little. I noticed that when I post a photo it would post it similar to this:
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I wanted to have a ‘class=“smoothbox”’ in that a href tag, because I want photos in my posts to pop up. I also realised that when I make a post through the web-interface, it would add a similar link.
After searching and tweaking I did discover how to fix it for the webposting (you know, where you click on the little icon to ‘add media’ and you select an image from your gallery). The iPhone-app seems to us its own way, but I very happily fixed the webposting bit.
You should not follow these instructions if you think you’ll break stuff. Use at your own risk!
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Jul
28
2008
After nearly a month away from my site, it told me to update to Wordpress 2.6. I figured, why the hell not (I like living on the edge). I went through the very easy update-process and thought it all went well.
Unfortunately, it didn’t. At first I thought everything had broken, all my single pages gave a 404, even the non-blog ones, and all my links to tags and archives stopped working as well! Panic!
Luckily, I found out pretty quickly that I only needed to fill in the ‘tags’ and ‘category’ field in the Permalinks section, which solved most of my problems instantly.
The last problem, the archives that didn’t work, took pretty long to figure out. I googled trying to find if anyone also had their monthly archive links throw them back to the main page I set the Permalinks to the ugly default, and that didn’t work.
By now I started to worry and considered rolling back to 2.5.1 just to get the monthly archives links to work again. Before I did, I did an install in a different directory as a test and that one had working monthly archive links. As the new install did not have any but the default plugins, I started disabling plugins in my default installation until I found the culprit: the robots meta plugin. Once I figured that one out, it didn’t take long to find a notice of the creator of the plugin, stating that the update revealed a bug and ladida, problem fixed, just update the plugin and set all your settings again. Which I did.
The plugin has a ‘disable date archives’ option that got checked. In fact, everything got checked. I unchecked unwanted things, saved, and my monthly archive links work as they should again.
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