Uploading Images in Wordpress 2.0
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
With the introduction of Wordpress 2.0, the Upload tab vanished and reappeared in a very defunct way under “Write Post”. Like many other people, I missed the good old Upload tab in Wordpress 1.5. What can be more easier than choosing the file of your choice, setting thumbnail options and hitting “Upload”? Then the IMG tag appears and I simply copy and pate it to my post.
So since the “Upload” tab is actually the file wp-admin/upload.php in Wordpress 1.5, why not upload to the wp-admin in Wordpress 2? Well, I did that and it does work in fact. All you need to do is simply upload the file. As there’s no such tab in Wordpress 2, you’ll have to access it through http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/upload.php. Upload functions work exactly like in Wordpress 1.5, all except for a tiny change - thumbnail naming. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: wordpress
Introducing, the Explore Box
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Finally, as promised weeks ago, I’ve update/upgraded the site a little. The “Recent” box is now upgraded to an “Explore” box. There was originally a “Expore” text there but it made the wholoe area look so cramped. The “Explore” box, is party inspired by Binary Bonsai, one of my favourite sites when it comes to usability/navigation.
As for compatibility, I’m not sure whether the “Recent” box works with IE as I didn’t really test it out, but I think it probably didn’t. I just tested it in IE recently and the whole “Explore” box looks pretty f***ed up. I might do some further work with the CSS to get the tabs to display properly in IE. Not sure whether it works in IE7. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ajax, javascript, jnls.net
Giving Up on ShortStat
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
ShortStat is a simple statistics plugin for Wordpress. I’ve tried customizing it to suit my needs, by adding some SQL to extract more data out. But I just realized lately that there were some bugs with the extracted data. They sorta didn’t glue. I tried modifying and debugging it but it’s still the same. I guess I’m just not good at programming dates and such. Sigh..
Since the exams are already round the corner, I gave up on ShortStat. I just don’t have the time to make it work. After some Googling, I found Tracewatch. It’s PHP/MySQL based so you have to host it yourself. You can find a working demo here. It’s pretty neat though the graphs don’t seem to work in Firefox and Opera. Read the rest of this entry »
Wordpress 2.0 Nightmares
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Luckily for me, upgrading to Wordpress 2.0 was a breeze. Or so I thought, as my blog was back up as soon as I finished uploading the new files. Then I clicked round the slightly modified admin panel. The write post page has changed significantly, which is exactly where my problems started.
The new Wordpress 2.0 write post page spots a WYSIWYG textarea, with plenty of AJAX around the page. To tell you the truth, I didn’t like the WYSIWYG editor one bit. It’s not as responsive as the traditional textarea, and when you insert stuff like links andi mages, it pops up a web-page. Imagine the additonal time your browser needs to connect back to the server, just so you could add a friggin’ hyperlink. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows Live Messenger
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I’m not about to write a lengthy review that documents every facet of the recently beta-ed Messenger 8 as there’s probably dozens of other review available online. I’m just gonna blog about my thoughts on it. And oh, my first complain: clicking Help -> Send Feedback would bring you to a Microsoft.com page that says that feature is still under construction or something. Read the rest of this entry »
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