Jeff Chappell » WordPress

SEO Plugin Boo-Boo

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:20:51 +0000

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.

Widget Titles, WordPress and Broken Code

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:45:59 +0000

Who would have thought that skipping a widget title in WordPress while inserting Google Adsense Code would break the widget underneath? Certainly not I ...

Out, Damn’d Quote!

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:41:15 +0000

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.

WordPress and Train Wrecks

Jeff Chappell — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:26:55 +0000

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.

Going With Throttle Up

Jeff Chappell — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:47:19 +0000

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. ...

WordPress in Ubuntu

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:54:46 +0000

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.

WordPress in Windows: Part Two

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:08:36 +0000

If we did everything right, we now see the initial installation screen for WordPress. If you do, congratulations; WordPress is installed and running locally on your desktop or laptop.

WordPress in Windows

Jeff Chappell — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:17:20 +0000

Thus I take pen to paper (er, rather, keyboard to LibreOffice Writer) to help elucidate how to go about setting up and installing WordPress locally on your own computer.