The Blog of Adam Patten

If this isn’t a case of RTFM, then I don’t know what is. I set up my friends blog back in October using WordPress and wanted to enable pretty URLs. Unfortunatly, he chose Yahoo! as his host and they don’t allow access to the .htacess file. I thought there was no way to do it since I couldn’t use mod_rewrite. However, if I had just read the whole permalink article on the WordPress Codex, I would have realized that I could have “almost pretty” URLs by just adding “index.php” in front of the structure and let WordPress use a little PATHINFO magic.

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Well I finally upgraded my WordPress install to the latest version. I had attempted to do this about a month ago, but got sidetracked for some reason. The overall process was painless, it took me under 30 minutes to backup my database, upload the new files and update all of my plugins. The one thing I realized is that if you hard coded any of your plugins to your theme, you should use function_exists in the event you disable them or upgrade the plugin and the function no longer exists.

Plugins I use

Since I just upgraded them all I figure I might as well let you know which plugins I use on this blog.

• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• FeedBurner FeedSmith
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Popularity Contest
• ShareThis

Theme

Now I just need to create a custom theme for this site. The current theme I have was meant to be temporary, but I’ve slacked big time and it is any but. I finally understand em based layouts because of the great article on A List Apart by Richard Rutter, so hopefully I’ll get it done sometime in 2008.

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Yesterday I discovered an interesting little feature of WordPress, unfiltered HTML. Certain users do not have the ability to create/edit post/pages with unfiltered HTML. For security reasons, I would assume, WordPress by default does not allow any users besides an admin or editor to enter unfiltered HTML. This caused a problem for me when I created some pages on a site I was working on with id and class attributes included in my markup. Everything worked fine after I added all the content, but then I had a writer updating the content and after she was done, bam! all those id and class attributes were gone! Now I had a bunch of broken anchor links and un-styled elements. Read the rest of this entry »

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