Tag Archives: Wordpress
Mod my woo
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by Kenny.
I need some help from a wordpress ninja if you’re out there.
I’m using a woo theme for Children’s Ministry Online. Unfortunately, my sidebar is slightly too narrow for something I want to do. Literally, I need the sidebar to be about 4-6 pixels wider. Unfortunately it’s not as easy as just changing some numbers. In addition to some code changes, it also requires some changes to the background image (says the Woo Themes support forum). So, I’m getting some quotes from some affiliated Woo Theme Customization workers tomorrow. Do you or anyone you know have the competency to make the modifications I need? Feel free to let me know my contacting me from my contact page.… Read the rest
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Should I use Picassa or Flickr?
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
I’m a little stuck? Tell me what you think?
Currently I’ve got a little bit of a mess when it comes to photo management. I’m using Windows Live Sync to synchronize photos between my wife’s PC and my Mac. So when I take pictures and upload them to my MacBook, they sync over to her computer. The same happens when she uploads her pictures. It works really well this way. This means I don’t really use iPhoto to manage my photos because new photos will be added to my directory through synchronization and won’t import correctly into iPhoto.
The bigger problem though is distribution/sharing of photos. Recently I’ve been uploading photos to facebook as it’s quick and easy. However, I have family and friends who are not on facebook but they do frequent my blog.… Read the rest
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Nothing quite like a fresh new template
Posted on 22. Feb, 2009 by Kenny.
A few days ago I rebuilt my church’s Chidlren’s Minsitry blog. Boy did it need it. It was uuuuuugly!
Now it looks like the site I intended for it to be.
I spent two to three days looking for a new template, I was looking for something very specific. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of free Worpress templates out there, but I couldn’t find a single one that worked. So I decided to look into a template to purchase. Within twenty minutes, I had my new template. The lesson I’ve learned: You get what you pay for.
So, what was I looking for and how did a “premium” template solve my problems? Well, let me tell you what my issues were.… Read the rest
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Sharing the comment love
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I just found a great new WordPress plugin. It’s called commentluv. If you have a self hosted WordPress blog, I totally recommend loading and activating this plugin. The beautiful thing about blogging is the inter-connectivity of most blogs. It’s like a giant web of connectedness. Most of the blogs I follow I’ve found through reading comments on other blogs or through links. Comment love takes this to another level. When you leave a comment on this site, you have the opportunity to type in your website. If your website has a RSS feed (like your blog) commentluv will try to find it and post a link to your most recent blog post as an attempt at a little cross promotion.… Read the rest
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Children’s Ministry Online maintenance
Posted on 30. Nov, 2008 by Kenny.
So, I’m in blog maintenance hell.
Over the summer I upgraded to a new version of wordpress. Somehow in the middle of it, I deleted all of my categories. Normally that wouldn’t have been a huge deal, but the way I have my permalink structure set up, the actual URL address for each post has the category in it. It basically renamed all my categories to 15 digit numbers… it was a mess. I started to make the correction to all my posts but then forgot. So I basically had several hundred blog posts with funked out categories and strange URLs.
A few weeks ago I came across a website called Website Grader. Basically it analyzes your website and tells you what sucks about it.… Read the rest
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Apparently I’m no longer Children’s Ministry Online…
Posted on 23. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed that on my blog home page, my title is jumbled up some how. I noticed it but didn’t do anything to fix it as I’ve been busy. Finally I decided to take a look at it. So, I deleted the title of my blog to see what happened. The result?
Apparently my template decided to give itself a name. Yes, my theme has a very “Apple” look, but I am not running the “One more thing” site. If you click on any individual blog posts, it’s blank.
So, until I figure out how to fix it, I’m either title-less or I’m the “One more thing” other site. I may have to go in and edit the code in the template… I just don’t know why it showed up now for no reason.… Read the rest
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Final Twitter Post… for now :)
Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I’m going to wrap up my series of Twitter posts with this one, sharing one more resource and a cool story.
I noticed that a lot of the bloggers I follow on twitter have installed and application that sends a twitter feed when they write a blog. It’s a great add-on. Now for most of these people, I already subscribe to their blog feed, so I’m going to read their post at some point. This application though provided another way for me to get to their post. However, there are many people on Twitter that I don’t subscribe to their feed. Through this little application, I’ve found some new blogs that I now follow. So it’s a great tool. Using Google I found this great post here.… Read the rest
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Blogging from your mobile device
Posted on 18. Mar, 2008 by Kenny.
I use wordpress for my blogs. It’s easy and open for 3rd party developers to enhance the experience. As I posted earlier, I write all my blogs in Windows Live Writer and publish directly from there. I will log into wordpress only to manage my posts. The only think I haven’t really taken advantage of was blogging from my phone/mobile device. WordPress and blogger (I’m sure others do as well, but I haven’t used them) allow you to send emails to your blog which automatically turn the the messages into posts. I’ve also accessed the admin side of my blog from my phone, but the internet viewing experience isn’t that rich on most mobile devices (I know… unless it’s an iPhone).… Read the rest
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