davelevy.info is getting a bit tired, I fancy refreshing it Elegant Themes, who charge, have a theme called Divi which looks great, and so I went to look at the codex for some ideas. I found these, Spacious Arcade Basic Singl Omega I also need a download interface although most of it could disappear into…
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Featured images in wordpress
My current theme for the blog is not so good when the included text is not as deep as the featured picture. While not having a featured picture is OK for a screen based reader, it’s not so good for those using the wptouch interface. Maybe it’s not so good for deep pictures either. I…
Read moreRendering RSS on my blog or wiki
I have for a long time sought to present rss feeds within pages on this blog. It was started by a desire to use my social bookmark service as additional links in some of the reference articles on this wiki. The page was started in Jun 2014. Here my notes, although this page was subject…
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Bar chart archive widget for wordpress
A friend showed me the blog at http://tatiyants.com/ which has an awesome archive widget. I want one. Fortunately Alex has documented how to build one, in an article called “How to create a bar chart archive widget in wordpress“. This leaves me with how to install a widget, a quick google, takes me to here,…
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Related Posts Plugin
I have been using the Related Posts plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, WordPress deprecated this and one of the webservice providers “Zemanta” withdrew/failed or something … this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than…
Read moreWordPress and robots.txt
WordPress has a virtual robots.txt file; best not to muck around with the filesystem. There are a bunch of plugins to allow you to edit the robots.txt.
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Automating posts to Google+
I once wanted to post my blog stream to google+, but it seems overly difficult to do. Even harder now that Google have shit-canned it. This is now marked as deprecated, but overleaf/below are my notes when this seemed a good idea,
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Code Tag
A note on dealing with the code tag. It shows how it looks today and posses the alternatives of a blockquote class and a code rule. It was written while using the zbench theme.
Read moreWordPress update interruptus
Error message : Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute An error message caused by an interrupted update There is a codex thread here and instructions to delete the .maintenance file here.
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Embedding Code in WordPress.
So I need to use Artiss Code Embed a wordpress plugin designed to overcome the RTF editor’s unpleasant habit of converting code special characters to HTML.
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Disqus
This is page was originally created to document my use of Disqus supporting my snipsnap bliki. Disqus is a “comment as a service” web site. I revisited it in June 2025. I am not sure how I am going to do this as the snipsnap content is no longer required. I am a bit surprised…
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WordPress Vulnerability
Ars Technica report an attack on WordPress sites. Here is a google search, looking for their coverage, and here is the Ars Technica security home page.
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Google Tools and Analytics
I have been tidying up my desktop and web sites, and discovered that Google’s tools consider the subdomains, including this wiki as separate sites. There’s obviously some more work to do for some simple SEO work. Both the sub domains are wordpress sites.
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Social Login
I have just installed Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …
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Open ID
On the 20th April, I installed Social Login on this Wiki. This involved me registering the sites with http://www.oneall.com/. This points towards open-id, and I have discovered these links, http://openid.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID and this, below which talks about how to run an open id server, since I if not you, am losing trust in the big…
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