Not sure why they decided to do this, but Quicktags are disabled in WordPress 1.5 if Safari is detected as the web browser being used. Anyway, it’s easy to renable it. Simply open up wp-admin/admin-functions.php and edit it as described in this post on the WordPress forums.
The upgrade suprisingly took only a few minutes, and no problems that I can see. That is, except for the fact that my static pages i.e. About Me and Tech no longer look quite right. No matter – will start working on re-generating them later in the week.
Gasp! Version 1.5 is finally out! Download it right now! Am going to iupgrade to it right away! Wish me luck!
Just surfing around as usual when I noticed a link to a new FREE blogging service, siimlar to Blogger and LiveJournal. The big difference is that is running on WordPress – yes, the very software this blog is powered by? I’ve set up a test account and it seems to be running off a version 1.5 beta of WordPress, as the manager interface seems to contain features missing from my version 1.2.2 of WordPress..including a handy theme manager! Time will…
Finally got around to moving my Coppermine photo galleries from coolsphere.org over to the syamsul.net server. It was really much easier than I’d expected! This is what I did: Create a new MySQL database and username for my new Coppermine installation on syamsul.net using phpMyAdmin Using phpMyAdmin on coolsphere.org, export the existing Coppermine gallery database into a .sql file Now import that .sql file into the syamsul.net database mentioned in Step 1 Copy (or if you know how, archive) the…
One of the reasons I upgraded from a 2nd-generation to a 3rd-generation iPod was to gain song-rating capabilities. I really really thought that I’d constantly be rating all my music on my iPod while on the move, so that I could make better manage my iTunes library and create smarter playlists. It didn’t work out that way though. The reason is simple – I simply grew to prefer leaving my iPod in my pants pocket or bag. So I took…