Online Tech

See the writeup on the output buffer function here:
Buffering output
in the wordpress wiki. In my case, I have pages which are basically “table of contents pages” for the subpages. So, I’m enhancing the general page template to collect the list of subpages (if any). And then, if there ARE any (i.e., it’s a non-empty string), […]

The file ads.php needs to have the variable burninr changed to revvedup so that the top sidebar ads display. I’ve notified the author.

I edited wp-admin/index.php to show feedburner feed subscriber counts. Since I have just converted to using WordPress, the subscriber counts are low - of course! - and I’m better off not publicizing the actual counts. Nobody wants to be the only subscriber!
I’m making note of this so I’ll remember to carry the change forward the […]

I added a google box in front of the technorati tags, to see if it shows up through the rss feed.
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Nope, still takes 30 seconds to post a blog entry. I wonder if anybody has a hack for doing the pings in the background. I’m guessing the pinging is the slowdown.

I turned off automatic sitemap generation to see if that noticeably speeds up posting of blog entries. If it does, I’ll probably set an hourly crontab to trigger the update.

When logged into the admin area, it uses the same page title (the site name) as the publicly-viewable site does. I can’t distinguish the two in my list of window icons.
I changed /wp-admin/admin-header.php to begin with the text Admin:. So, the regular site shows ‘Next Time O…’ and the admin login shows ‘Admin:Next Tim…’ and […]