This tweak will change the “All Posts” page in the administration section of a WordPress site.
It adds the ability to filter the post list based on a custom field that has been used in any of the posts at any time. Continue reading
If you are a Google Reader user, you will have noticed the latest design change and probably been amazed at how poor the new layout is. What you may not have immediately noticed is just what you’ve lost.
In this article I look at what has been lost and what you might be able to do about it, at least in the short term. Continue reading
Hi to everyone who has followed this blog and my other blogs (Living With Linux and my Development Blog) for a while. The Living With Linux blog is now redirected to the Linux category on this blog and the development blog redirected to the Development category.
For a long time I’ve been meaning to consolidate the blogs into a single blog and move the main blog from Blogger to WordPress.
Well, that has now happened so welcome to the new, updated blog.
There may be one or two missing posts and some missing comments but I will fix that as time allows.
I also intend to move back to using Disquss for comments which I think gives a much better reader experience and reach.
So hopefully, I’ll be more inclined to make better use of the blog again now and I will be trying to bring together not only the larger posts on this blog but also my short posts on Twitter and Diigo in a more consistent and coherent form.
Well this one threw me!
I was trying out the new custom post types in WordPress 3.0 RC1 and could not work out why mine wasn’t working even when I copied an example from the web and only changed a few things.
It turns out that there is a limitation in the naming of post types – they cannot have a name longer than 20 characters!
If you use more than 20 characters, the “Publish” button becomes “Submit for Review” and if you submit, you get the dreaded:
Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.
error.
I’ve moved my several Blogger blogs over to a single WordPress blog as I can take better control.
Unfortunately, I’m guessing that some comments may get lost in the move – sorry about that.
Anyway, you will now find blog entries about all areas of IT that take my fancy including Windows, Linux, Web & Office development, Identity Management and doubtless lots of other random stuff.
My blogs are mainly for me so that I can keep things I’d like to remember (or rant about!) in one place, if it’s useful to you as well, please let me know in the comments.
Regards,
Julian Knight
I’ve had a problem trying to claim this blog at the Technorati web site.
It seems that using Firefox doesn’t work and that in getting part the way through the claim process and then failing, I can no longer complete the process.
No problem I thought, I’ll contact the Technorati support and they will help.
Well think again. Despite several emails over the last few months (there’s no phone number), nobody has even bothered to reply. I get an automated response but it seems that nobody is home at Technorati.
Sometimes such things mean that the underlying organisation is failing – surely that can’t be happening at Technorati can it? Are they the latest victim of the worldwide credit crunch?
Is anyone left alive at Technorati? Is anyone listening ….
Oh, actually someone is at home – I know that because they are still blogging – shame then that they can’t be bothered to respond to a simple support query – maybe they are too busy making money off our content. The ticket number is 19738 in case anyone from Technorati does manage to find this, it was raised on 16th April. Maybe you would like to fix your Firefox issue at the same time.
UPDATE 2009-07-13
I’ve since sent several emails but I’ve still had no reply at all. I’m not impressed.
I’ve moved my comments over to Disqus from the default Blogger comments. It means that you don’t have to log in to comment and you get much better tracking of discussions. My other blog “Much Ado About IT” has had this for a while and it seems to work really well.
Unfortunately, it does mean that I’ve lost any existing comments – sorry to those who have commented in the past.
Just testing a new commenting system – Disqus.
Looks like it works OK so I’ll keep it online for now. Currently, you no longer need to be logged in (previously you needed to present either a Blogger, Google or OpenID credential to comment because of spam) since Disqus is supposed to handle this better. However, if the spam starts to reappear, I’ll have to restrict it again.
For blog authors, check out Psolonoid as well. It provides an easy and controlable way of creating links (like trackbacks) between blog entries.
I’ve already got a few things to blog about so expect some articles shortly covering the following:
Update 2009-02-13: Not forgetting:
Hi, here is my new blog. I’ve been meaning to set up a general IT blog for some time and this is it.
This will be a collection of thoughts, ideas I’ve had and research I’ve done.
You can also look at my blog about Linux and my personal homepage.