Jun 11
WordPress 2.8 upgrade woes
As you may have noticed the new version of WordPress – 2.8 – was released yesterday. And that started a cascade of people complaining their blogs were all of a sudden gone – replaced by a plain white page. I’ve been plugging at this all night and into today and I’ve found some nasty little [...]
Feb 03
Using WordPress in Alternate Configurations – My WordCamp Whistler 09 Presentation
Finally, after a full week of catching up, here is the video tutorial version of my presentation at WordCamp Whistler 09 for those who were there and those who couldn’t come. The video is also available on WordPress.tv if you’d rather watch it there. I recorded the video over the weekend and it contains the [...]
Jan 30
New WordPress-based Site: AnnyChih.com
Two weekends ago my sister-in-law Anny Chih asked for some help sprucing up her WordPress blog. She wanted to apply for The Best Job in the World – the Tourism Queensland online video contest where you post a 1 minute video application to become the island caretaker of the beautiful Hamilton Island in Australia – [...]
Jan 24
Code snippets from my WordCamp presentation
Here are some code snippets from my WordCamp Whistler presentation. This article will be expanded in the coming week but in the meantime here they are for anyone wanting to play around with them:
Custom Page Templates in 5 lines of code
<?php
/*
Template Name: Whatever
*/
?>
Custom Fields in one line of code
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘$key’, true); ?>
Custom Field [...]
Jan 12
Speaking about WordPress as CMS at WordCamp Whistler – What do you want me to cover?
I am speaking at WordCamp Whistler on January 24th on the topic of using WordPress to create, design and manage “non-blog” web sites – in other words using WordPress as a CMS. If you follow this blog you know that I’ve been working with this concept for a long time and that in almost every [...]
