Bugs in the System!!!

Don't panic !! It's only a picture of one I caught earlier.

I apologise if you were affected by the recent bug encountered by some visitors when they accessed this site. The bug caused some desktop PC user's to see the mobile and PDA version of JournalXtra. It was caused by a plugin update and the issue has now been resolved. For those who want a little more information, the plugin is called WPtouch iPhone Theme and is designed to switch visitors with mobile phones and PDAs to a site theme specifically designed for them. It hasn't affected any of my other Wordpress blogs so it will be related to a configuration setting. I knew about the update but … [Read more...]

The Most Impressive WordPress Theme Bar None

Don't Panic!

Updated Wed, 3rd Feb. 2010 We Wordpress bloggers are a funny lot. We style our sites with a theme, we edit it to get it how we want it, we think it's perfect and then we see another theme that's even more perfect so we start over again. Some of us even go so far as to learn to create our own "perfect" themes only to decide that the next pre-made one we see is even better. I suppose we just get bored very quickly. Well I know I do; and I get very annoyed with myself because each time I use a new theme I have to set it up to work with my plugins, ad server, widgets and content styling. So it … [Read more...]

Vanishing WordPress Posts!!!

smashed computer graphic

I had a shock today. In fact, I was terrified, livid and exasperated by what happened to me today: I lost a very long Wordpress article that I have been working on for several months; or, at least, I thought I had lost it. I made a few edits and added some new details to the 140 Mafia Guide, saved it and viewed it to see that the article displayed as I wanted. Only, it wasn't there to be seen. The comments were still visible but the article was, well, gone! I felt sick. I've spent ages working on The Guide, adding internal links and changing the layout to make it more user friendly. I wanted … [Read more...]

The Perfect WordPress Adserver

O.K, So I lied, this adserver will work stand-alone and as a plug-in for Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla! It's called OpenX and is a complete adserver solution. In fact, this is a buddy with benefits. See the bookcase ads at the side of this page? They're managed and delivered via OpenX. They're not ordinary ads. OpenX uses built-in geolocation to determine which ads to serve so if you are in Europe you will see ads for Amazon.co.uk, if you're in Canada you will see ads for Amazon.ca and if you're from the US or anywhere else then you will ads for Amazon.com. It's a very impressive product and … [Read more...]

Stop < pre > Text Overruns

Here's the problem: when you write your own HTML or you use a content management system like Wordpress (using the HTML editor) and you want to showcase HTML code or any other code within a post then you have to do two things: use Character Entities to represent the less than (<), greater than (>), forward-slash (/), back-slash (\) and ampersand (&) characters so that the represented characters are displayed rather than used to designate code tags; and use the <pre> and <code> tags to instruct web browsers to display characters within their opening and closing tags in … [Read more...]

WordPress: How to Auto Expand Comments by Default

Just a little gripe I have with some of the Wordpress themes created by some of those amazing designers out there. Some theme designers forget to provide the option to have the comment dialogue box auto expand at the end of articles. Not a problem when there's a button stating "add comment here" but it is a problem when there isn't such a button or when busy visitors are too much in a rush to look for such a button. Think about it, do you look for a comment box or do you look for a "add comment" button? After a little bit of searching I found the code edits needed to make the comment box … [Read more...]

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