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The Speech — Yes We Did!

Published by Jerry on November 5, 2008 in Food, Life, Ramblings and Site. 0 Comments Tags: Barack Obama, election, obama.

There is nothing more that can be said than Hooray! Now…on with the hard work.

Getting WordPress 2.3 to Play Nice With ELA and UTW

Published by Jerry on January 21, 2008 in Ramblings and Site. 3 Comments Tags: ELA, extended-live-archives, k2, k2-theme, ultimate-tag-warrior, UTW, wordpress, wordpress-2.3.

OK, so I have avoided upgrading to WordPress 2.3 for-EVER.

Heck, I went to Panther (Mac OS 10.5) and iPhone firmware version 1.1.2 faster than I went to WordPress 2.3.

I remember tinkering with a pre-release version of WordPress 2.3 in a sandbox that I use for testing new hacks/plugins/etc. before moving them to the so-called “production” site. Everything broke with that early pre-release version…and I had no time…so I backed away.

Until now.

As a point of reference, it is useful to mention that as of the time of this post, I am running WordPress 2.3.2 and K2-svn-268 (google numbers).

A. Fixing Arnaud’s Extended Live Archive (ELA ver 0.10beta R18):

STEP 1: Go Here, download the patches and install them. If the link goes down, let me know and I will post the zip files.

STEP 2: In K2, edit “page-archives.php” to remove “&& !($wp_version > 2.2)” from the line that checks to see if the ELA function is present.

With those tweaks, ELA should work as it did under WordPress 2.2.

B. Fixing Christine’s Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW)

OK, so it is impossible to “fix” Christine’s UTW. WordPress has gone and completely bollixed-up the tagging interface (using some of her variable names and some of her function names). But I very much wanted some of Christine’s functions (which WordPress did not bother to replicate). In particular, I wanted a function named “weightedlongtailvertical”.

For those of you who used to use UTW, and want “weightedlongtailvertical” to work, I offer the following:

STEP 1: Disable the old UTW plugin.

STEP 2: Download the “UTWRenderThing.php” from Here.

STEP 3: Edit the file as described in this comment.

STEP 4: Upload and Activate it.

With those tweaks, “weightedlongtailvertical” should work as it did under WordPress 2.2.

That’s all for now. As I come up with other tweaks, I will add another post.

Why do you join discussions?

Published by Jerry on March 19, 2007 in Life and Site. 9 Comments

I’ve gotten into a somewhat lengthy dialogue with a reader in a prior post on this blog. Not that many of you would understand, but a serious conversation with a reader is a new one for me…me the one with few readers.

That dialogue caused me to ask a fundamental question: “What causes you to reply to a post?”

For me, the more specific the points made in the post (assertions or facts) and the more passionate the post, the more compelling is my desire to interact.

Is it the same for you?

I ask this because I have written far more articulate and compelling posts and received next to no discourse. This particular post was thrown up as an after-thought following on a You-Tube video that I thought was interesting.

To all those writers among you…how do you churn up discourse?

This is cross-posted to 9Rules. Answers accepted in either place.

Under Construction

Published by Jerry on March 5, 2007 in Fun and Site. 0 Comments

In my copious amounts of free time (read “none”), I have decided to try my hand at a bit of CSS tweaking. The grid that ~~now adorns~~ previously adorned my background is was supposed to help. It may help only to remind me that I have work to do…who knows. Please excuse the dust … and … refresh often.

Props to Christian for the “Grid Idea” via Derek.

Cavemonkey Solves The “More/Feed” Problem

Published by Jerry on January 29, 2007 in Site. 0 Comments Tags: cavemonkey, feeds, more-quicktag, rss, wordpress.

I knew that it had to be simple. I just had no clue how to do it myself.

Apparently, the folks at WordPress thought that they were doing us a favor when they truncated our feeds using the same “more” tag that we use to keep our front pages short. Following the general sentiment described in the comments to this post on Paul’s site, I wanted full feeds even though I used “more” to keep my front page short.

I have been complaining about this “feature�? for a while now. But to no avail.

But then along comes Ronald Heft to the rescue. Go here for the plugin.

Thanks Cavemonkey!