Redirecting a large number of posts to their new WordPress permalinks.
Add this to the VERY top of your theme’s 404 page. Change http://localhost/wordpress to your default wordpress folder. This just does posts and possibly pages that end in the id (with or without the...
View ArticleA few WordPress Tricks.
Just a few little tips for WordPress: If you don’t want the titles of posts to have the » character before them for SEO purposes just use: < ?php echo trim(wp_title('&raquo;',false),...
View ArticleImprovements for Stattraq plugin.
Ever since I originally started using Stattraq a few things bothered me about the way it worked. Here are the fixes to a few of them. Include pages with posts in your stats. Open stattraq.php Find:...
View ArticleVictory over GMail–Inline Images.
I’ve wanted to be able to add images to my emails inline (one that appears with the text, not as a separate attachment) for a long time, and today, thanks to WordPress I finally figured out how to do...
View Article8 Tips for Improving the Content of Your Writing
The content of writing is separate from style and structure because content is what you write not how you write. The following tips apply just as well to academic essays as to blog posts, so feel free...
View ArticleTED: Think Globally, Act Locally
I’ve linked to TED for quite a while in my sidebar and I urge everyone to subscribe to TED’s video RSS feed if you are even remotely concerned about the world and people around you. TED talks tends to...
View ArticleChanging the hosts file in Vista
In Vista, normal users are not allowed to save the hosts file, so the easiest way to edit it is to run notepad as an administrator. Go to start and either search for “notepad” or go to All Programs...
View ArticleThe most important writing tool I own: a notebook.
Bloggers by definition are writers. They may not write stories, but they write enough to fill many books. It doesn’t matter whether you blog about yourself or random and esoteric topics that only...
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