December 26th, 2008 — Tech
The new WordPress release 2.7 has built-in support for both comment threading and paging. Especially the latter is a cool feature: it helps fighting the problem of ever growing pages just because there’re so many comments attached to a post or a page.
Since I’m using the Copyblogger theme that currently doesn’t come with comments on several pages I changed the comment.php to use this new feature. This post documents how this worked.
Continue reading →
December 22nd, 2008 — Tech
WordPress adds a generator tag at various locations. Basically that’s a good idea because it provides a means to check out the different versions of WordPress that are actively being used in the blogosphere.
Continue reading →
December 16th, 2008 — Tech
You’d like to upload some files from a PC running Windows via FTP to another server every now and then? It’s as easy as:
- saving the appropriate FTP commands in a text file
- using Windows’ built-in
ftp command along with the text file
- adding a task to the
at scheduler.
Let’s have a look at this.
Continue reading →
December 2nd, 2008 — Tech
I have found various descriptions about a dynamic navigation menu in a WordPress theme. What I’ve seen these solutions grab some pages and display the result either in the header or sidebar of the theme. It’s called dynamic because you can add pages to your blog and – depending on the implementation – a link to the appropriate page will appear in the menu.
Continue reading →