Archive for the ‘ wordpress ’ Category
After doing Rails development for so long, it’s ….. interesting to develop for other platforms once in a while. I am talking about WPMU, a pretty fantastic multi-blog platform. The lack of documentation is aggravating though, as is the absence of all my Rails tools like the console and the log. Well turns out you [ READ MORE ]
Tis the time of year for lotsa restyled websites! Yes, I have been keeping busy. My aunt’s physical therapy shop Fysiodeurloo is the first to kick off this year’s round of fresh new websites. It’s a pretty standard Wordpress-as-a-CMS website, but does its job very well and is a huge step up from the previous [ READ MORE ]
A security vulnerability was discovered in Wordpress 2.8.3 recently. If you look at the flaw in question, I can’t believe people are still using PHP to publish websites. If you still do, you should be beaten with a stick. Let’s gloat about why Ruby (on Rails) is better, point by point. [ READ MORE ]
I couldn’t help but notice this podcast of Future Vintage, a show on Radio 6. With titles like Space Invasion, Sirius Space Party, Interstellar Low Ways, When Planets Explode, Tales from Outerspace and Distant Planet you can’t go wrong! Download the MP3 now! [ READ MORE ]
What better way to inaugurate Wordpress 2.6 than with a new template? This one is quite nice, not as emo as the last one. More, uh, “professional”. ‘Coz we are, like, extreme “professional” here at Space Babies HQ, m’kay? [ READ MORE ]
Today I’ve written a small plugin that displays excerpts in Wordpress with style. Download it here. [ READ MORE ]
Wordpress introduced a great feature in version 2.1: a static home page. Twas the feature that made WP a viable CMS. But unfortunately it broke the internal is_home() function. Here’s how to patch that. [ READ MORE ]
