Sep 30
Website Updates David
alignment, picture, text, theme, wordpress
Two updates to the site today.
First I added a profile picture to my about page. I’m not sure about this one, but I’ve had one shot of good feedback.
Second, I went into this theme’s style sheet and simply altered the text alignment for posts and lists. The default was to the left, although I thought that pages and posts would benefit from being justified to both sides. Indeed, I think the result was quite pleasing. However, I didn’t think that lists benefitted from this, so I had to explicitly set them back to left align.
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Sep 30
Website Updates David
theme, wordpress
I’m pretty much settled with this theme, but I was looking at others yesterday. There is one particular one that caught my eye. It still has orange parts, but it is white, rather than dark, and narrower (~800px vs 950px). I haven’t spent any time modifying the theme although did replace the header image with a cropped version of my own. Here’s a little screen shot comparing them. Let me know what you think.
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Sep 29
Website Updates David
blog, moving, wordpress
Well, I’m not going to call myself stupid, although I am going to admit to misdirecting myself while being swept over by lots of new stuff.
Moving a blog isn’t that hard at all. I’ve been playing around with the local server. I see now how all the documentation I have read, is actually correct. Now that, in retrospect, I see what they mean by certain terms. Although I only understand what they mean by having tried doing things the hard way first. So, they weren’t that helpful, by the time I’d understood them, I’d figured it out for myself!
Anyway, suffice to say I know how to move this to a new domain, I am no longer scared by the task, and I’m pretty much ready as I don’t know what else I could need to do with this blog that I could really need to do inside a sandbox (which is what this domain is all about).
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Sep 27
Website Updates David
export, moving, wordpress
I’m getting pretty close to declaring this blog ready to go live. So, I have to look ahead at how to move the thing. Sure I could remap domains, but at some point in the future I could need to know how to do this, so I might as well get it figured out now.
Using “Xampp” I’ve installed a local Apache server on my laptop, to have a go at importing this on-line version of my blog, to my local machine. Having had a quick look at the guides on Wordpress.org, I couldn’t really follow it. Therefore, I just tried the simple export/import feature of the Wordpress dashboard. It seemed to get all of the essential data imported (took three attempts to do it without timing out on my laptop though). Although quite a lot wasn’t brought across.
The main things that didn’t work this way were my themes and plugins. Sure, I downloaded them via FPT from this server to my local server, although their settings didn’t come with them.
I need to work out a more comprehensive way of moving a wordpress site. More reading to do!
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Sep 26
Website Updates David
feed, header, permalinks, RSS, theme, wordpress
Well, I’ve done a bit more hacking to this “MoreOrange” theme, specifically to the header.
Firstly, I discovered this is where the auto feed discovery code is hidden. So, you will now find that as well as Atom and two versions of RSS, there is also a link to my Friendfeed … feed … (ahem) which is a catch all for everything I do on-line. I’m really pleased I could work out how to do this as it’s something I’ve wanted to do from day one.
Secondly, I’ve added an RSS subscribe link to the top-right corner. This has enabled me to remove the “Subscribe Me” sidebar widget. I was using 10 sidebar widgets, I’m now down to 7 with all the changes I’ve made in the last 24 horus.
Lastly, even though the post headings act as a permalink, I’ve added “permalink” permalinks to every post now.
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