HolisticNetworking.Net: Thomas Belknap's Laboratory of LAMP

Thomas J Belknap’s Laboratory of LAMP

 

More Testing, Different Plugin

Goodie, there’s a new version.  Let’s hope this works.

This is Just Crazy

OK, so I’ve been playing around with the postratings.php plugin that was supposedly for WordPress MU.  Like hell, it is.  I’m still jerking around to try and get this thing working, and so far, all I’ve managed is to make the bastard not bork my entire blog.  At least, so I think.
But of course, if you’re reading this, then I’ve definitely avoided a catastrophe before I went to sleep this evening.

OK, I Need to Learn More About Plugins. . . .

I’ve posted two new articles a few days ago. Their sole purpose was to test the Clean Trunks plugin in the MU environment. It appears as though it will not work without some modification.
The first, most obvious trouble seems to be that Clean Trunks needs to be kept in its own directory, and cannot have the two component files dumped into the /plugins directory on their own. If I put the plugin component files directly into the /plugins directory, the plugin engaged enough to pop an error message stating “the second argument was invalid in file clean_trunks.php on [...]

I Hope This Plugin Works

Testing the Clean Trunks plugin in the µ environment. We shall see, bizzle.
So far, no dice.  No errors, either, but no dice.

MU Blogs, Ordering and Aggregation

As I’ve come to discover, both from my own experience and also from reading here, there doesn’t seem to be any particularly easy way to aggregate data across multiple blogs in WordPress MU. To some extent, I suppose, this makes sense: the ‘Pressers had anticipated using MU for web hosts that wanted to provide easy-setup blogs for their customers. But for those of us looking to fuse the multi-blog concept into a cohesive whole, this is a bit frustrating.
MU saves each new blog in the database by creating a new set of standard WordPress tables, adding a prefix [...]

Testing Sitemaps Plugin

Just checking a sitemaps plugin that I’ve downloaded and installed.  It says that you need to first post a blog entry before the sitemaps are created, . . .  so, that’s what I’m doin’.

Great Adventures in WordPress MU

This blog has officially been upgraded to a WordPress MU site! I’ve been thinking about making some changes to my political website, DragonFlyEye.Net, and I’ve decided that this is the way I’d like to go.
I last did a major overhaul of the site design about a year or so ago. I’d been learning more and more about how to make a proper website, including a lot of lessons learned from working with WordPress, and so I pooled those lessons into a new design that was much more flexible than anything I’d worked with in the past. While [...]