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Dave on Two pane search of this blog
I want to build a custom search page for my whole blog space, you’d think it was easy, but it seems not. I am looking to parameterise the use of keywords or tags. Here are my notes and links.
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Dave on This site, moving home
I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. …
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Dave on WordPress Tags, maintenance
I have some notes on the wordpress schema; I am trying to tidy up my tag list on my blog, there’s a shed load of tags which only have one entry in the database, there are some spelling mistakes and some inconsistency in the use of spaces and plurals. But I might leave those with only one use on the blog/wiki for the search engines. There are 56 which have become orphans. I have documented the image credit at the bottom of the article. Here are my notes …
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Dave on Minnow theme for WordPress
One of my favourite WordPress themes is the ultra clean minnow theme, it has not been updated for a while but its wordpress codex page is here, and I have made a copy of my theme directory. To see a thumbnail, see below/overleaf …
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Dave on Moving this wordpress url and domain
I am looking to move this wiki to a location within davelevy.info. Here are my notes…
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Dave on PHP, 1and1 and (most) of my webspace
I had to upgrade the PHP versions on my 1and1 domain systems. I am now on 7.2. I used the 1and1 control panel. Here are my other notes including the fact that I have replaced the A-Z index plugin. This was written in 2019. …
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Dave on A carousel slider
I installed wp logo showcase plugin on another blog and need to uninstall it, so I have copied it across to here. Below/Overleaf there is a slide show.
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Dave on Red or Blue
A poll, using YOP Poll between Red & Blue
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Dave on Easy Index
While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more carefully. It seems they’re not too keen on transparencies either as they are displayed as black.
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Dave on Polling in WordPress
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Dave on WordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.
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Dave on WordPress 301 Redirects
I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …
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Dave on Labour & WordPress
The Labour Party are moving from the Nationbuilder web site to a customised wordpress environment. Here are my notes …
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Dave on WordPress calendar plugin
I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a map if you want. It’s much faster than Nationbuilder. Read More