One Fine Jay

Not worth it!!!

I saw this at Meryl’s: …one of the things preventing me from joining Pajamas Media is that they want full control over my RSS feed, including my only being allowed to send post titles via RSS. So PJM will offer you money but limit you to sending only post titles in the feeds? Long have… Continue reading this entry

On “asides”

I tried adding asides to my site because at first I thought that a three-line entry prefaced by an enormous title and two lines of metadata was ugly until I realized just how naked a post looked like without its window dressing.

Split personality

I got my WordPress.com account yesterday. It runs nightlies (!!!) or very recent updated version of WP-MU, with the 1.6 interface. It’s pretty snazzy, and since it’s not something I can customize, I can concentrate on writing. Truth be told I really needed that other location simply because sometimes it feels stupid and incoherent to… Continue reading this entry

The rising WordPress monoculture

Are we really ready for it? Two years ago when I was using B2 I, like many, understood the folly of generating individual HTML files that filled up server hard drive allocations. Later on we saw comment spammers shutting down entire servers by turning the rebuild process against its owners. We also saw hundreds upon… Continue reading this entry

WP Bleg

Why, this renowned (but not self-proclaimed) WP “guru” needs help of his own. Anyone care to help? I want to move entire masses of posts from one category to another, because I’m about to delete quite a few categories in my taxonomy. Better yet, a plugin that can do this painlessly would be bonerrific.

WordPress Update

Version 1.5.2 is out. Here’s a changelog skimmed from the trac. Also, the security upgrade this morning from Podz is included.

I should be doing this. For real.

Many of us WordPress users use a variety of hacks, plugins and customizations. Many are open-source, but I have the hardest time looking for references in their blogs about them. I know that open source does not require a link, but in the interest of sharing with other people just how awesome your stuff is—stuff… Continue reading this entry