Monthly Archives: June 2005

J-blue theme not calling gatekeeper_pose_challenge automagically

Posted on 2005-06-30 by Jim Vanderveen

I’m wondering if the known bug in gatekeeper 1.5 depends on which theme you’re running? I’m running journalized-blue, and it was rejecting comments with “Sorry, posting has been closed for the time being.” errors. I’m running Eric Meyer’s gatekeeper anti-spam … Continue reading →

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Using WordPress tags? Don’t forget to re-apply the tags patch!

Posted on 2005-06-30 by Jim Vanderveen

Thanks to Joseph and my blogroll, I saw the WordPress 1.5.1.3 security update. I forgot to re-apply the tags patch from Felix Wong’s tags plugin the first time through. Doh! Thanks for posting this, Joseph.

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EM ‘n EN

Posted on 2005-06-29 by Jim Vanderveen

Just a quick little note about The Trouble With EM ’n EN. This is an awesome article on the lost art of typesetting and includes information on em dashes, en dashes, and all sorts of other “special” characters not included … Continue reading →

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Podcasts and the I-pod Shuffle

Posted on 2005-06-28 by Jim Vanderveen

If you look at my archives, you can see that I just recently started blogging (and reading blogs). So I missed this post on Acetylene.net. Zeno’s comment mentions listening to podcasts with an I-pod Shuffle. I’ve tried this before, and … Continue reading →

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To-do list for tags support in other themes

Posted on 2005-06-28 by Jim Vanderveen

Just thinking about what still needs to be done to get tags support in my other themes… Steam will need to have 4 files modified: archive.php index.php sidebar.php and single.php I’ve already modified at least one of these files for … Continue reading →

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404 page added to J-blue

Posted on 2005-06-28 by Jim Vanderveen

I added a 404 page to Mike Little’s journalized theme. It’s nothing fancy, just ripped the content area out of index.php and put some semi-helpful text in its place. This page should work for all of the Journalized themes, and … Continue reading →

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Nothing new here, but check out cvntrak.org

Posted on 2005-06-26 by Jim Vanderveen

Nothing’s been going on here since I’ve been busy hacking up Central Valley NTrak, my model railroad site. It’s now a full WordPress site–all content is managed by WP. I learned a few things about Pages (note the capital “P”) … Continue reading →

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Is the Bee trying to sweep the Downing Street Memo under the rug?

Posted on 2005-06-24 by Jim Vanderveen

(NB: If you are asked to login or register for the articles at the SacBee site, just go to BugMeNot.) Our local paper, the Sacramento Bee, may be doing its best to bury the Downing Street Memo (DSM) story by … Continue reading →

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Using curl to slurp a file via http

Posted on 2005-06-24 by Jim Vanderveen

In this post, I mentioned having problems with live updating of the blacklist. (The “URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration” error.) In this comment, Matt Read shows how to use curl to fetch the file contents via http. … Continue reading →

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New parameter for list_tags() cleaned up Sharepoint theme

Posted on 2005-06-23 by Jim Vanderveen

A bit of hacking on Felix’s tags plugin (version 0.3.0) has cleaned up the Sharepoint theme. I added a new parameter, “count_posts” (default true), to the list_tags() function. This controls the display of number of posts. The patch is here, … Continue reading →

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