SEO Plugin Boo-Boo
A recent version of the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, 0.4.1, caused some people to have an issue with xml sitemaps. I was one of those peeps. But a little digging fixed it.
read more Widget Titles, WordPress and B...
Who would have thought that skipping a widget title in WordPress while inserting Google Adsense Code would break the widget underneath? Certainly not I ...
read moreImage Tags, Keywords and SEO
Reviewing spam can teach you more than you might think about search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords. And don't forget those image tags; these are important too.
read morePhotoshop, Ubuntu and VirtualB...
I really like Ubuntu, but I can't do without Photoshop. Rather than use Wine I'm using VirtualBox, which enables one to run Windows 7 -- inside Ubuntu -- and thus Photoshop. Hooray.
read moreOut, Damn’d Quote!
In which a single, misplaced apostrophe in a PHP file breaks WordPress and results in the dread White Screen of Death. I subsequently murder the King of Scotland.
read moreWordPress and Train Wrecks
The process of uploading or migrating a WordPress site has gone smoothly for me, more often than not. But uploading this particular site was a train wreck.
read moreGoing With Throttle Up
I've got things -- more-or-less -- squared away here with the relaunch of this site. But there are still some things to do, and it's past my bedtime. So please bear with me. ...
read moreWordPress in Ubuntu
So, um, where it says "For automatic updates to occur, the folder and all its files and subfolders must be owned by www-data." ... This is REALLY. EFFING. IMPORTANT.
read moreAbout Me
Jeff Chappell: journalism nerd; web geek. That's the short story. Want the longer one?Call me Ishmael. It was a dark and stormy night. But seriously ...
