Category: Wordpress
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WordPress: Remove broken links
As a general rule, I don’t do much in the way of SEO (search engine optimization) on this blog. I’m not trying to sell anything, readership numbers are largely irrelevant to me, and I am not serving any ads. While I wouldn’t mind having a readership in the tens or hundreds of thousands, the fact…
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An alert for old posts
As some of you may have noticed, my old posts now feature the following notice: I implemented this following a particularly obnoxious example of someone reposting an old article to their own ends, after which a Norwegian blogger advocated labelling one’s old posts and articles with a notice that they are, in fact, old. I…
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Changing it up, yet again
I know that it has been a very short time indeed since I last changed the theme, but I have not been completely happy with Latte, either. In particular, the fact that it has too much white space on either side of the posts when viewed on a large monitor has bothered me, but also the…
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New theme
For some time, I’ve been unhappy with the theme I have been using, and started looking for something that does not actively remove focus from the content. This is the result. The theme is called “Alchem”, and I’m very happy with how it looks. In particular, I like how it helps me differentiate between views,…
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WordPress: Set an expiry date on a post
From time to time, you may want to have a post expire at a preset date. Maybe you’re running a campaign, maybe you’ve got a survey going, or maybe you simply know that a specific post will stop to be relevant at a specific date. Whatever the reason, you want it to disappear, at a preset date.…
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WordPress: Make a post sticky
As you may have noticed, there has been a sticky post at the top of the page for the last two weeks or so. A reader actually emailed me and asked how I accomplished that. As it turns out, making a post sticky in WordPress is very easy to do. (By the way, a sticky post…
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Cookie notification bar
Last week, I wrote about why I now have a cookie notification bar in the top of the blog. What I didn’t tell you was how I did it. One of the things I really like about WordPress, is the fact that there are a myriad of plugins to do just about anything. So,…
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A new outlook on life
Having played with the idea for some time now, I finally decided it was time to switch out my old theme for this one. Though there was nothing wrong with the old theme, per se, I had grown tired of it, and opted to swap to this one. The old theme, NewBlue by Blog Design…
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Adding a personal message for commenters
If you have left a comment, you might have noticed that there is a message for you before the comment field, that looks like this: It’s pretty simple to implement, though you do need to muck about a very little bit in php. Here’s how: Log on to the admin panel in your…
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STFU && RTFM on mobile devices
After reading this post at NRKBeta (link in Norwegian), I decided to follow suit, and install a theme to help speed up access to my blog from mobile devices. I’m doing this for two reasons: Firstly, this blog is my personal knowledgebase. As I work a lot in the field, I needed a speedier way…