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Another WordPress upgrade complete

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I’ve now moved this blog and Christine’s up to WordPress 2.1. I’m still waiting for the WPG2 patch which resolves an issue with g2image and TinyMCE but as I rarely post via the web then this isn’t too much of a problem. More problematic was that WordPress now appears to add an extra paragraph tag in around the images which broke the style applied to the Gallery one-image class. Having moved that to the ImageFrame_none class everything appears to be functioning again.

One slightly annoying side-effect of the fact that categories are now shared between links and posts, when combined with my earlier fix, is that the empty Blogroll category now appears in my sidebar. Maybe one day I’ll implement the fix properly and hide entries that don’t have any posts in themselves or their sub-categories! In the meantime I just have to sit back and enjoy the new 2.1 features.

Update 28/01/07: Looks like wp_list_cats has now been fixed so that the hierarchical view does show empty categories with posts in sub-categories (indeed, the post count includes these) so I can remove my earlier fix.

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WordPress upgrade and widget fix

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

I’m glad I didn’t get round to moving up to WordPress 2.0.6 as, 10 days later, 2.0.7 is out. The upgrade itself went pretty smoothly. I’ve also fixed the categories widget in my sidebar. By default it doesn’t show categories without any postings but, in a hierarchical view, it doesn’t take in to account that sub-categories may have postings. Having selected Sidebar Widgets in the plugin editor, I located the widget_categories function in question. In the call to wp_list_cats I added &hide_empty=0 to the end of the parameter. You should now be able to see my People category (empty) but also its Family and Friends sub-categories (with postings).

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File conversion

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

A plug for a site put together by a Hursley colleague and his brother. Zamzar provides free online file conversion. Upload a document, image, video or music, select the type of conversion, enter your e-mail address and click convert. After a short delay you get an e-mail back with a link to your converted document.

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.5

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Finally found the time to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.5. The process of copying across all the modified files, plugins, themes etc. is always far more manual than I’d like so if you spot anything that looks broken please let me know!

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Tax discs online

Friday, October 27th, 2006

The DVLA have finally joined the 21st century and I’ve just purchased a new tax disc online. Shame that the big yellow box on the front of my renewal form didn’t contain the required reference number but holds an advert for buying online instead. Fortunately, with the reference number from the vehicle registration certificate and a license plate number it was able to find the necessary records. The system doesn’t quite deliver on the “quickly” part of the advert – only after you’ve paid does it tell you that it may take up to five working days for the disc to arrive. Shame the current one expires on Tuesday!

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Firefox 2.0 out

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Firefox 2.0 may not be due for official release until tomorrow but it’s on their FTP servers today. As you might expect, the main server is taking a battering so I’d suggest UK folks try a local mirror. Nice touches are the search box which dynamically suggests terms, new pages opening on tabs by default and inline spell checking. Best of all though, all of my add-ons updated successfully! One interesting point is the support for the WHATWG specification for storing and persisting state client side, something that is increasingly important for Web 2.0 applications.

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Free UK calls

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Skype have an interesting offer for six months free calls to UK landlines if you buy £10 of SkypeOut credit. Presumably it’s an attempt to persuade people to use VOIP for all of their calls. Unfortunately the free calls also have to originate from within the UK otherwise I’d be tempted.

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IE7 initial thoughts

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I took the plunge and installed IE7 after it was released yesterday, safe in the knowledge that, with various bugs being reported already, there is always Firefox. (Check out http://www.ie7.com/!) Initial thoughts are pretty positive but I’m not ready to switch yet (at least until I see what Firefox 2.0 has to offer).

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