When I first started a personal blog, I had no idea what to do with it. I thought I would post a few recipes, write about my weekend at the beach, and that would be about it. Instead, this blog became a tremendous learning experience for me. I started podcasting (thanks to Wil Wheaton and …read more…
Posts tagged with: wordpress
Spammers Suck! and so do you…
Amazing that an anti-spam plugin author would spam in the #WordPress forums. #irony "If you do it, it's spam; if I do it, it's promotion." — Professor O (@iswpw) May 27, 2013 You can read about it in the WordPress forum here. Kind of ironic that someone who is promoting an anti-spam plugin would resort …read more…
In which I (kind of) learn how to create a WordPress plugin
I’ve wanted to create a plugin for WordPress for some time now. I have plenty of ideas for them (mostly scholarly or academic uses). The only problem is I don’t have enough knowledge of how WordPress operates to really accomplish that. What I know about PHP is not much. However, I was a biology major …read more…
Don’t need none of this Microsoft mojo
It’s kind of funny how things happen, isn’t it? I was at my parents’ house this morning, and read an article in Vanity Fair magazine called “How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo“. It’s an interesting read, and if half of what’s in that article is true, that is one screwed-up company. Of course, none of that …read more…
Upgraded to WordPress 3.4…
…and I got this message: which is so cool I had to tweet about it: Just upgraded to WordPress 3.4. Oh, yeah! #blog #blogging #wordpress #awesome — Professor O (@iswpw) June 14, 2012 But this is the sucky part: As cool as those new Twitter embeds are, there’s no way to center them, or …read more…
How Not to Get Help From a Help Forum
This post is a parody of my “How to Get Help from a Help Forum” post. Since some people find themselves offended by it, I thought I would create a special set of rules and guidelines just for them. If you don’t understand what parody is, please don’t read this post. You’ll just get your …read more…
How to Get Help from a Help Forum
I participate in a lot of help forums on the internet, and I was recently made a moderator on the Graphene theme for WordPress forum, which has been a tremendous opportunity for me to help others. This post is based on those experiences, both asking for help and giving help. While some of the advice …read more…
