Category Archives: WP stuff

Essential site maintenance

It may be that I am Keith Neilson will be unavailable for a bit this afternoon as I’m performing some fairly routine maintenance and spring cleaning. Not to worry though, if all goes as planned we should be back and transmitting as normal later on in the day.
Wish me luck.
M out

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Site Redesign Underway

I am in the process of redesigning and re-organising my blog. I have a completely custom built theme pretty much ready to go, hopefully I’ll be able to offer it for download once I’m finished tweaking it.

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GameScribe Open Beta, and a Contest

As I think I may have mentioned, Gamescribe is a new hosted blogging service built along the lines of Wordpress.com (it even uses the same software) designed specifically with gamers in mind. Read on for more info…

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Wordpress 2.5 Should Improve Embed Handling

This peice of news comes as a relief to me; as of next week, once WP2.5  is released, the problems with the layout of this post should be a thing of the past. An excerpt from the Blog Herald’s WordPress Wednesday post detailing some of the improvements follows the jump.

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CSS, Template Tags, and loss of hair…

You may have noticed some disruption to the site over the last couple of days as I’ve been trying to build a theme from scratch, easier said than done let me tell you. I’ve planned out my layout, I’ve set up the template files I need, with the requisite template tags, and am now at [...]

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Now to business…

Right, I’m putting out this appeal. If anyone has a link to me on their page let me know in the comments and I’ll sort out linking back. I lost my links in the transition.
Work on the site proceeds apace. you probably haven’t noticed any changes but its all happening in the background. Plugins currently [...]

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Settled at last…

Finally found a theme for WP that I can tweak quite easily, I’ll use this as a basis for ongoing work on the layout and design. So far I can recommend WordPress. Apart from losing posts I haven’t had any problems with it at all.
Let me know what you think of the new look.

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Thats the spam dealt with…

In the time between installing wordpress and activating the comment spam filtering gubbins (about 18-24 hours) I got 48000 spam comments which I’ve just had to go through and delete manually.
I’ve also noticed that where there should be 200+ posts there are only 32. Alot more was lost in the migration than I first thought. [...]

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August seems to be missing….

Under Construction v2.0 is now in business, template tweaks and plugin hunting aside. Welcome to the dawn of a new age.
All posts made in August and September 2006 seem to have been lost in the conversion between Nuclues and WordPress. Oh well. No great loss really.

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