Tag Archives: wordpress

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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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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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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Futility of ‘rel=nofollow’

Posted on 2006-02-07 by Jim Vanderveen

rel=nofollow is a bad idea for blogs, so let’s drop it. Continue reading →

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New website for my wife’s business

Posted on 2005-10-07 by Jim Vanderveen

Setting up a new website using WordPress as a CMS instead of a blog. How-to, testing, plugins, and results/suggestions. Continue reading →

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Google sitemaps with WordPress

Posted on 2005-09-13 by Jim Vanderveen

I stopped by Joseph’s blog a few days ago and read the article about Vint Cerf moving to Google. This got me thinking about an earlier Google-related post about sitemaps on Joseph’s blog, where he wondered about a WordPress plugin … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5.2, patches [re-]applied

Posted on 2005-09-02 by Jim Vanderveen

I finally got around to upgrading my WordPress blog software to version 1.5.2 today. I also took this opportunity to apply Kimmo’s entity patch, which takes care of HTML entities ½ and ¾, and probably some others as well. At … Continue reading →

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Footer plugin requirements, notes

Posted on 2005-08-31 by Jim Vanderveen

Reasons for a statcounter plugin, generalized to “footer” plugin, links to plugin-writing resources. Continue reading →

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SK2 blocking multiple pingbacks?

Posted on 2005-08-30 by Jim Vanderveen

Spam Karma 2 rocks! Have I said that already? Well, not in so few words… But I just noticed something. I wrote a post last night with multiple references to my own blog–in this case, I refered to two other … Continue reading →

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