WP mobile

Well, the tide of progress finally overtook me, which means that it was time to think about how to make my various WordPress sites and site sections more friendly to visitors with mobile devices. As a long-time user of Mac computers, I was thinking mostly of the iPhone and related devices, but if a solution worked for them and Blackberries and whatever else is out there, more the better.

WordPress Media Manager

In the process of converting a static HTML site to a WordPress site, I though I’d be clever and create a local instance of WordPress on my home computer, and then once I got everything just so, transfer everything to the server. It only sort-of worked.

jQuery and WordPress

I just converted another of my sites to WordPress from static pages. For a couple of the pages, I was really chafing at the restrictions of WordPress compared to static code, mainly because I wanted to load jQuery and do some special table formatting. No matter what I tried, WordPress would reform my jQuery code so that it wouldn’t work.

WP 2.8 weirdness

So, I updated each of my WP installations from 2.71 to 2.8. I started on my local instance, to verify that everything was working the way I expected. It was, so I upgraded one of my client accounts, and it worked fine, too.

A shortcut to avoid

When the time came to install WordPress on my Mac OS X Server, my local machine was busy proccessing some large log files from a client, so being impatient, I connected to the server using VNC to do the install “directly” on the server.

Running WordPress locally to upload to a remote server

I was poking around in the MAMP fora and came across a question from someone who wanted to run MAMP locally on his Mac and then upload the files to a server.

Installing WordPress on Mac OS X Server 10.5

When I first got my G5 XServe, I tried setting up Movable Type the “normal” way (using MySQL), but for some frustrating reason, the MySQL that comes pre-installed on Mac OS X Server 10.4 is missing a key perl module that allows Movable Type to interact with MySQL, so after days of trying to install the module via CPAN, I gave up and used SQLite. It works fine, but it’s tough to find tools to deal with SQLite databases the way you can with MySQL databases using, say, phpMyAdmin.

Converting from MT 3.34 to WP 2.65

I recently had the opportunity to convert a large-ish Movable Type system to WordPress for speed testing and usability evaluation. By “large-ish” I mean 12,038 posts, and 43,043 comments. This may not be large by others’ standards, but it was plenty large to me.