I noticed about an hour ago that this site’s feeds were not working and hadn’t been working since around December 20th. After checking the source and then deactivating all my plugins one by one I found the culprit and zapped the error.
So… feeds should be working again … and I learned a little more about how WordPress works in the process.
Add comment January 12th, 2007
Just a heads up to those out their in blogland who, like me, use Blix by Sebastian Schmieg as their WordPress theme.
The upcoming version 2.1 has made some change which mess up Blix’s handling of its navigation bar. The fix is simple and I post it here to allay anyone’s nerves who begin to panic when their pages seem to disappear.
68 comments January 11th, 2007
Similar Posts, Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments have all been updated. One or two bugs in parameter handling have been fixed, certain parameters can now be blank where appropriate, or be more complex than before, e.g., 'before_title=<li class="item">'.
Excerpts can now be trimmed down to stop them ending in mid-word. They can be cut back to a word or a sentence. NB excerpt_length is now counted in characters and not words as previously.
Add comment November 14th, 2006
My blog has posts going back over 11 years and the archive of posts by month in my sidebar was getting very much out of hand. In the search for a more compact way of displaying the monthly archive a plugin was born.
Compact Archive displays the monthly archive of posts in two compact forms. It can be shown as a block suitable for the body of an archives page, e.g.:
10 comments October 29th, 2006
Recent Comments Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes better retrieval of comments, some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented.
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8 comments October 26th, 2006
Recent Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented.
Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page.
26 comments October 26th, 2006
Random Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes some new options and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented.
Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page.
10 comments October 26th, 2006
Similar Posts Version 2.0.0 beta is now available. Largely rewritten, it includes better handling of extended character sets, some new options, and many more possible styles of display. Version 2 now has its own page where future developments will be documented.
Comments are now closed for this post but can be added to the new page.
89 comments October 4th, 2006
I’ve just installed the Scripturizer plugin by Dean Peters et al. I’ve long wanted to include links to the scripture texts that give the liturgical context for my homilies but been daunted by all the fiddling involved. Scripturizer lets me just insert the scripture references and takes care of the linkage. I’ve tried it out on the last few homiles already posted and it seem to work fine.
There are two slight hitches though. My ideal plugin would be able to go one (big) step further and guess from the post title (and a detailed knowledge of Roman Catholic liturgical calendars!) what the scripture of the day might be. Unfortunately that’s a step too far so I’ll not be editing all my past homilies to include scripture references. I still have the vestiges of a life!
5 comments October 3rd, 2006
For ages now I’ve had a section in the sidebar of single-post pages that lists some other (possibly) related posts. The problem is with the ‘possibly’ — the suggestions just haven’t been very good.
I’ve been using Related Posts (2.02) by Alexander Malov & Mike Lu. It takes the words from the title of the current post and matches them against the text and title of all your other posts. If I were better at naming my posts it could work much convincingly … but I’m not and never will be.
Add comment September 30th, 2006
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