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Trying out QuickPress

Allan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:57:19 +0000

I’m really liking the new user interface on WordPress. I’m writing this straight from the dashboard. Cooooool.

Normal Service will resume!

Allan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:34:08 +0000

I’ve just upgraded to WP 2.7.0 and it seems to have sorted out my image upload problems. Sometimes the solution is right in front of you. My contact forms seem to be working alright too, I’ll run a few tests just to be sure. If you’ve used the form and haven’t heard from me in 24 hours drop me another line.

The above image is from the Tourcoing Press Cartoon Festival, it’s me with a scary portrait by Frank Boyle.

Firefox, WordPress, Flash, oh fu…

Allan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:41:47 +0000

Photo owned by valentin.d (cc)
I’m having a crappy time uploading images on this blog at the moment. Since upgrading to Firefox 3 the flash uploader doesn’t work and I don’t have any other option to upload. I can go into the control panel on the server and upload directly into the blog content folder, but then I’m having to copy and paste URLs of pictures into the blog post.
The uploader seems to work fine in Internet Explorer, but it’s not my preferred browser and seems to be having major security issues at the moment.
My Flash is up-to-date and the only thing I’ve done that might have upset the apple cart is upgrading to WordPress 2.7 then rolling back when it broke my cformsII plugin.
I’m actually finding Firefox 3 to be a rather dissatisfying experience.
Google Chrome here I come?

10 Downing Street ripping off WordPress theme developer

Allan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:37:34 +0000

Photo owned by danksy (cc)

Anthony Baggett, the developer of my lovely Darkwater WP theme, has had one of his themes ripped off by none other than Gordon Brown, Prime Minister.
If you look at the bottom of my blog you’ll see a link to Anthony’s website. This is part of the Creative Commons 3.0 licence, which means that under the terms of use that link has to be there whether I modify the theme or not (I have as it happens). This attribution has been removed from the No 10 site.

Anthony’s been in touch with the developers, New Media Maze, but he says “it hasn’t gone well”.

EDIT 21/08/08: The developers have responded to the allegations here.

Phew!

Allan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:58:44 +0000

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and it seems to have gone ok. If you’re running an earlier version you should update now because many blogs running earlier versions are getting hacked.

My host Blacknight has a nice server side installer called Installatron, which made backing up and installing very easy.

As for the decor: the new interface is gack.