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Surprise! WordPress has tags-to-categories conversion
No doubt there are at least one or two other WordPress bloggers out there who will be interested in this breathtaking bit of news. While playing with my test blog and experimenting with new themes (oh yes, I’m always thinking of new presentations to wow you with, or with which to wow you), I discovered … Continue reading
WordPress releases ‘Piano Black’ theme
It’s true. Nothing makes a color image “pop” like a black matrix or background. If you don’t believe me, try previewing WordPress’s newest theme, “Piano Black,” on your WP blog. Color images are absolutely scintillating. The problem is, so is the text. And scintillating text is harder to read. Well, it is for me anyway. … Continue reading
‘Fair Use’ and the Flickr widget
I stumbled across an interesting topic in the WordPress forums last night — whether a blogger can use the Flickr widget to display thumbnails of photos other than his or her own. I’d previously looked at the widget and thought it was good only for displaying my own photos (I have none) or the default … Continue reading
The ‘joy’ of indexing a WordPress blog
Indexing anything is generally thought to be a royal pain in the butt. That’s because it is. But but few would argue the basic utility of an index. With online search capabilities, of course, indexes are becoming passé, but they are still informative when you want an overview of what’s in a document or website. … Continue reading
Ouch, WordPress lesson learned
I just got an unpleasant reminder about how this blog may sometimes look to my readers, and I’m not happy. First of all, please accept my apologies if you have ever been confronted with an ad while visiting here. I hate the idea of ads intruding on my blog, my readers, and me. I’d long … Continue reading
My (page) designing mind
Pied Type has a new look — again — and the simple explanation is the lady changed her mind. But there’s more to it than that. The dark Choco theme is warm and cozy. It focuses attention on the posts by treating everything else with brown tones. But its limitations frustrated me. Dark themes can … Continue reading
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
My readers, all three of them, have probably noticed my recent paucity of posts. No good reason, really. More like excuses. The elections left me burned out on politics and news. Besides, you don’t want to read yet another item about John Boehner’s crying and how I think the man must be emotionally unstable. Then … Continue reading
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping … Continue reading
Redecorating, again
I’ve gotten the itch to “redecorate” this blog, so be warned that things here may appear a bit unstable for a while. Much as I like this new theme, called “Elegant Grunge,” it has some shortcomings. If I can’t tweak them to my liking, or learn to live with them, I’ll probably be moving on … Continue reading
A very short post
Just a brief “historical” note. This is the 1,000th post on Pied Type. It’s been a blast. Here’s to 1,000 more!
WP share buttons a hit
Wow. Thank you, readers. And thank you, WordPress. I added the new WordPress share buttons to my posts just yesterday and already you, the readers, have thought enough of my stuff to share it 73 times. That means more to me than hits, which could be accidents or visits so brief that nothing is actually … Continue reading
And then they came for me
Heads up, bloggers. They could be coming for you (or me) next. The city of Philadelphia is requiring some bloggers to buy a $300 business privilege license and pay taxes on any income. Currently they’re going after anyone who reports any income from a blog. Even if, as in a story in Philadelphia Citypaper, it’s … Continue reading
Because you care
WordPress includes a ratings feature that can be enabled on one’s blog. Either a five-star rating or a thumbs up or down rating. I’ve had it enabled for almost two months, and garnered all of 5 votes. Because it adds clutter to the page and because the ratings mean vary little without a decent amount … Continue reading
Sometimes spam is funny
I just noticed I had a pile of blog spam and went to take a look. Occasionally a legitimate comment gets caught in there and I need to kick it loose. The true spam, with all the indecipherable links for drugs or who knows what, all that junk from foreign countries, gets deleted. On rare … Continue reading
Still discovering WP Twenty Ten features
I just discovered something about the WordPress theme I’m currently using (Twenty Ten). Maybe I’m the last to know; wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened. Mouse over the date in the line at the top of the page (“Posted on Friday, May 21, 2010 by Pied Type”) and it will show you the time … Continue reading
Check your blog’s loading time
If your blog or website doesn’t load in less than 4 seconds, you’re losing visitors. Check your loading time and make necessary changes. Continue reading
Twitter sans cell
Trying something new in the the sidebar — the Twitter widget. I don’t tweet; I don’t routinely use a cell phone. But it did occur to me that the Twitter widget would be a way to add brief, passing thoughts or comments that don’t warrant an entire post. I’ve set the widget to show only … Continue reading
Another WP widget I didn’t understand
WordPress gives us a lot of widgets to play with, and I thought I’d tried or looked into most of them at one time or another. But it seems I didn’t know it all after all. Surprise! So maybe this will be news to someone else, too. There’s a widget called Blog Subscription. It allows … Continue reading
Yes, I know I keep changing themes
Yes, yes, I know I changed themes not that long ago. But I suddenly started missing the Vigilance theme, so I’m bringing it back. Hey, at least it’s free. And it keeps me from doing any more online shopping. We all have our weaknesses and one of mine has always been reworking layouts for as … Continue reading
Heads up, WP bloggers
So, didja catch the latest feature from WordPress? They announce these things so quietly, they’re easy to miss, but I suppose pop-ups, pop-unders, or flashing, blinking text would be too intrusive. Anyway, the latest is the addition of a geolocation and geotagging option, available on your profile page under the Gravatar. The option will tell … Continue reading
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