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 »
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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 »
Ultimate Tag Warrior
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
As I find less time to do web development, I wander online and blog about a variety of things. I added a “tech” category, but obviously it didn’t suffice. So at last, I started tagging my posts.
First step was to find a tagging plug-in for wordpress. I simply Googled and found this: Ultimate Tag Warrior. The name itself is impressive enough. The plugin, certainly “ultimate”. Read the rest of this entry »
Blog Script Roundup
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Sitepoint had a little review of the top 3 blog software: MovableType, Wordpress and Textpattern. It’s not a really really extensive review, but it does provide a quick insight into all 3 blog engines.
I won’t be making quotes from or summarizing the review, as it’s not such a long read. However, I would reall like to voice my reasons for choosing WordPress, mainly over Textpattern, and also a factor that many would ignore: performance. Read the rest of this entry »
ShortStats
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Ever since the very day I started my own site, I’ve always wanted to track my visitors. AwStats doesn’t really work for me as I would need to wait for it to be refreshed by my host, and most importantly, it logs my visits too!!
So I went in search of a PHP-based alternative that would not log my own visits. TraceWatch particualaly impressed me as it was able to track visitors, one by one. And of course, it uses cookies so that I wont be part of “statistics”. But it needs FOUR queries to log each visitor, making it sorta “heavy”.
Then Danny introduced ShortStat to me. A simple Wordpress plugin that logs some simple statistics. However, it also logs my visits. Here’s the best part: I’m on static IP! Unlike Streamyx users who use dynamic IPs, I connect via a network provided at hostel. Thus, I’m assigned a static IP through the NAT protocol on the network (I’m no whiz at network stuff, so excuse the mis-information, if any).
Simply put, I just need to add 2 lines of codes (if you don’t count the curly braces) to stop ShortStat from logging my visits:
if ($ip == "218.208.66.170") {
return; // i'm checking my own pages.. don't log me!
}Ain’t that wonderful?? Hehe… I guess I’ll work on a cookie based mod when I have the time next time. So the next time you visit this page, you’re (meaningful) statistic!
