Tag Archives: sonicchicken_blog

Finally moving to https!

Posted on 2018-04-07 by Jim Vanderveen

I haven’t been using my blog lately because I’ve been trying to find a reasonably-priced service that offers encrypted web connections, i.e. https://example.com. A few weeks ago my current hosting provider, Pair, started offering that as a free service. Woot! … Continue reading →

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blog software updates

Posted on 2014-01-09 by Jim Vanderveen

Wow, I had really let this blog fall by the wayside! 🙁 When I started the [30-day challenge][zero-to-hero] earlier this month, I knew one of the urgent things that needed to be done was a full update of the blog … Continue reading →

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Day #2 of “30 Days to a Better Blog”

Posted on 2014-01-04 by Jim Vanderveen

The assignment for day #2 of 30 Days to a Better Blog was to edit your title and tagline, and flesh them out more in a widget. I actually found this much more difficult than yesterday’s assignment. When I first … Continue reading →

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Blog updated

Posted on 2011-05-26 by Jim Vanderveen

Well, it’s long past time that I updated this blog! I was given extra incentive when my hosting company updated PHP, which broke the old software. The new version of WordPress doesn’t support my old tags plugin, so I’ve finally … Continue reading →

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Markdown formatting broken

Posted on 2007-08-28 by Jim Vanderveen

Pair upgraded our web server last night, and in spite of all the work I did to get the blog software updated in advance, it still got broken. All of my Markdown-formatted posts are displaying the following message: Warning: preg_replace_callback() … Continue reading →

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Tags are back

Posted on 2007-08-17 by Jim Vanderveen

Took a bit of work, but tags are back up! I was originally (2005) using Felix Wong’s plugin, but it hasn’t been updated yet. So I installed the latest (and *final*, sob!) version of [Ultimate Tag Warrior](http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2007/06/30/ultimate-tag-warrior-fin-the-end/) by Christine Davis. … Continue reading →

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Remodel URL broken

Posted on 2007-08-17 by Jim Vanderveen

Nuts! The URL I’ve been using for our remodeling project was broken by the recent WordPress upgrade. (Well, technically it was the old tagging system that broke.) So I’ve temporarily changed the remodel URL to point to all blog posts. … Continue reading →

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New themes

Posted on 2007-08-16 by Jim Vanderveen

My old theme, [Journalized Blue][], didn’t *quite* survive yesterday’s [WordPress upgrade](http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/08/15/wordpress-upgrade/). I’ve downloaded [Journalized v2][] (beta), but while I was at it I decided to go “theme shopping”. I was looking for a 2- or 3-column *fluid* layout–<rant>I **hate** it … Continue reading →

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WordPress upgrade

Posted on 2007-08-15 by Jim Vanderveen

My web host, [pair networks][], is upgrading my server tomorrow, so it looks like a good time for me to [upgrade WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress). Hopefully I’ll be posting a comment on this article in a few moments saying how easy everything went… … Continue reading →

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A little Apache magic…

Posted on 2007-04-27 by Jim Vanderveen

I got tired of telling people the lengthy URL for the remodel project: http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/tags/remodel I’ve added the following shortcut to my config: http://sonicchicken.net/remodel That’s just the domain name followed by “remodel” — short and sweet!

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