The bloody toe

This is what you do:

For the BlogURL enter the following:

username:password@www.yourblog.com

Where username/password is for the HTACCESS

Thanks to ckelly on this page.

Well, I just updated my WordPress sites (like the one you’re lounging on, now) with 2.7.1, which was released today.  It took me about one minute per site, so, to say the least, this is easy stuff.

This release fixes 68 bugs and is a maintenance release.  There are no notable changes when logging into your WordPress Dashboard.  Instead, small perks, like allowing a “Contributor” user to delete all spam, are included.  Make sure that you have a complete backup of your database and WordPress directory, before upgrading.

Get it here, now if you host your own blog, while there are still copies left.  If you want WordPress to do the work for you, let them host your blog.

I noticed that there some things about my blog’s site that were confusing, so I’m going to experiment with some new designs.  Please, if you like or don’t like it, speak up.  Either comment directly through the website, or email me:  nathan [at] nelsonshack [dot] com.

When the plugin Wordbook is enabled, when going to publish any post from my iPhone, via WordPress app, the app crashes, even though the posts completes.  After disabling Wordbook plugin, everything works fine.  Hmmm…that goes for the last two versions of Wordbook.  Too bad:  I’d really like to use this app!

I installed WPG2 and then added some code <li><?php print g2_sidebarimageblock(); ?></li> into the theme’s sidebar. It looks nice and adds a lot to the site.

Thanks to this and this and this site, I was able to figure out how to add a timestamp to my posts on the index.php of my site:

1.  Navigate to your ~/wp-content/themes/default/index.php, and look for this line:

<small><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>

I recommend commenting it out, by making it look like this: 

<!–<small><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>–>

(It also wouldn’t kill you to just flat out back up your index.php before you start this)

2.  Now, right below (or above) where you had that line, add this: 

<small>Posted: <?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?> at <?php the_time(‘g:i a’); ?> by <?php the_author() ?></small
>

3.  Done.  It should add the timestamp for each post on your index page.

After installing the WordPress Backup login, I received errors because it didn’t like the permissions that I had on my wp-content directory. I temporarily changed them to 777, ran backup, then back to 755. It worked at that point and still seems to work with wp-content at 755.  Refer to this site.

drwxr-xr-x

A site on hiding categories from users.

http://automattic.com/code/widgets/