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Archive for Web_design

WordPress 3.1

by Gavin Impett
March 1st, 2011

The upgrade is painless enough. I’ve been working on the back end of the site and a new problem raised its head in the form of Meetup, which has more or less made it impossible to use.

I’m thinking this is a good thing in the long haul, but in the short term, it is creating a headache and is more than a little distressing. I’ve been thinking for awhile about the firewall between my martial arts me and Darwin Atheist me, and it is time to merge the two.

Some other weird stuff going on in the background that I will get to as time permits. Lately I’ve been involved on some of the Meetup boards about where to go and what to do, which doesn’t help you much, I do understand.

It isn’t that I haven’t been writing, trust me, it’s just that what I have been writing hasn’t been the general news thing, which some of you are signing on for.

One of the the good things about being the only Gavin Impett is I’m not so hard to find, should someone want to find me. As a fairly private person, it is always something of a shock when something I write actually gets back to me, by someone who read it.

In the world of Martial arts and JKD land in particular, this can be something of a problem , but in the words of the prophet, sometimes you just have to say fuck it.

And that is where I am at with the current situation with my little in the park group. They are happy to support me and endure the type of stupidity meetup is heaping on them, so be it.

I’m going to a different writing format, which is a bit more suitable to this sort of thing.  And I may even put google ads back on my site. We shall see.

Categories Blog, Good Wordpress Plugins, Web_design
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Sitemap, a good wordpress plugin review

by Gavin Impett
November 29th, 2010

Nice, WordPress just ate my post. Thank you, WordPress. Hit publish, make go away. Nice, very nice. Where was I, oh yeah, singing the praises of Sitemap a plugin by Dagon Design.  Without going into the entire praise again, since who knows if this one will get eaten too, yes, I know actually writing in the wordpress act is one of those dangerous scary thing we do so often that we don’t even think about how reckless we are in our travels through the web.

So what does this plugin do, it creates a sitemap. Install it from the wordpress depository, place the code into the desired page’s writing section (whatever the official name is for whatever I’m writing now) and you are more or less done. The default sets the links at 50, so at some point, I may add more pages, but in the meantime, it works. total time from start to finish, maybe five minutes.

Again, I actually have more time to write about the plugin than it does to figure out how to make the thing work. It is well documented and it makes me happy. Aaaaahhhh. WordPress plugin goodness.  The homepage of the sitemap creator is here.  Throw money at him.

Categories Blog, Good Wordpress Plugins, Web_design
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Good WordPress Plugins/Widgets

by Gavin Impett
November 28th, 2010

These are plugins that help make the site more useful and user friendly.

They work, play nice on this site, have usable installation instructions and do not waste hours of my day in trying to figure out if they work or not, and if so how.

For instance, I set this post to sticky. That means it should stay on the top of the post thread. Is that happening? No. Why? Figuring out why, that can take a long time. If by setting the post to sticky and then the post stays at the position I set it to, then I would say all is right with the world, but since it’s not, I can point out the joy of working with this thing.

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Bad wordpress plugin list

by Gavin Impett
November 27th, 2010

This is a thread devoted to plugins that for various reasons, that have wasted my all too short time on this planet.  Read More→

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Say goodbye to WPRemix

by Gavin Impett
November 27th, 2010

After tearing my hair trying to figure out what was causing my Internet Explorer bar to screw up, I found some forgotten Remix code in one of the pages.  Took it out and away we go.

Next problem child on the block, Apture. I like the plug-in, but it kills the page load speed at my end. I’m waiting for more than 10 seconds before I can write word one and the words are coming up a bit on the slow side. I am not pleased.

It’s a cool,  cold, unsentimental world in web-land, I do say.

The other plugin that is probably short for this life is permalink helper, a worthy plugin that seemed to kill my pages. Turns out that is a WPRemix issue – the design of that theme requires each page have its own code which must be removed.

Still no love with the permalink helper.

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WordPress experts give bad Permalink advice

by Gavin Impett
November 27th, 2010

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Ithemes Builder to the rescue

by Gavin Impett
November 26th, 2010

Well, I spent a good part of the day cleaning up some back end mess. I attempted to use the permalink updater plugin with predictable results – meaning it broke all my pages.  A couple of other plugins crashed and burned today, always good for an hour or so of headbanging and frustration. Read More→

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Ithemes builder first impressions

by Gavin Impett
November 26th, 2010

I found this unpublished post somewhere back in the dark ages and decided to put it up. This is using the Apature plugin, which seems like a worthwhile tool.

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The new look by Builder

by Gavin Impett
November 24th, 2010

I’ve finally gotten the base install of Builder up and running. Not bad for out of the box. I spent a good part of the day rebuilding my pages and thinking about how to move forward in the design of the site. More thinking on top of the already massive thinking. Read More→

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Ithemes Builder goes live today

by Gavin Impett
November 24th, 2010
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