When I upgraded my WordPress installation recently, I ran into a chracter encoding problem. Long story short, it turns out that older WordPress installations like mine tend to have been created in latin1, but the data is actually being saved in UTF8. If you update your wp-config file to a newer version, it adds a [...]
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How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to WordPress
It’s safe to say that no one at Pop Art was ever really happy with Community Server. We selected it as a platform for a variety of reasons, some of which turned out to be based on faulty assumptions. Once we finally made the decision to switch to WordPress, the conversion was a huge pain, [...]
Six WordPress Tips from the Pop Art Blog Redesign
When we converted the Pop Art Blog to use WordPress, I learned some clever tricks that I would like to share with you. If you like what we’ve done around here, you might be interested in some of these techniques for your own site.
WordPress Automatic Theme Upgrade Deletes Custom Files
When I made Dojo, one of the main features of the theme is the ability to add a custom.css file in the same directory, and the theme will load it – that way you can use the theme as a starting point, and just change the colors and stuff to match what you want. That’s [...]
Dojo and WordPress 2.7
I’ve had a few inquiries about whether Dojo works under WordPress 2.7, and the answer is yes! You can drop it in, and it’ll work just fine. However, there are some new features to allow comment threading and paging which don’t work yet. It’s not broken, it just uses the old non-threaded, non-paged comment style. [...]
Dojo is Coming Together Nicely
I haven’t had a chance to have another coding marathon for Dojo yet, but I’ve been able to spend an hour or so here and there, and I’m really pleased with the way it’s coming together. First and foremost, I’m proud of the code. I haven’t even gotten to the CSS yet, it’s just markup [...]
I’m Working on Something Special
Most coders and programmers are familiar with the concept of “flow” or “getting in the zone.” In a nutshell, it’s a mental state you get in when you’re working on something where it almost becomes effortless. This state can be difficult to achieve, and usually takes the right combination of energy level, motivation, and little [...]
Web Design for Sara Ryan
In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her: Hi Scott — I found your site while searching for Portland web developers who use WordPress, and I really like the look and feel, as well as your focus on CSS and web standards. [...]
Skinning Community Server 2007
We recently upgraded the Pop Art Blog to Community Server 2007, and I was assigned to upgrade the templates. Dave produced a wonderful comp, and when I read about CS2007′s new Chameleon Theme Engine, I was pretty excited. The actual experience of working with the templates turned into a bit of a nightmare, however.
Moving from LiveJournal to WordPress
I’m working on a new site for a local author, and one of the things she wanted was to move her blog from LiveJournal to WordPress. I did a bit of research, and found out that there are a few complications. LiveJournal’s export tool will only export a single month of entries at a time. [...]
Space Ninja History
I first got online in the early 90s. While some of my friends were goofing around on BBS‘s, I was using my dad’s Compuserve account to post icons I had designed for Windows 3.1. Later on, in 1995, I had dial-up Internet access at home, and a friend had shown me Joe the Circle, one [...]