Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress in Utah

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

My friend Mike Smullin (who BTW is an excellent developer of custom Wordpress plugins) sent me this:
Hi Jordy,
Not sure how much you like WordPress or Matt Mullenweg, but I figured I’d let you know about this upcoming event in Utah:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416950/?ps=5
Enjoy! :)
This sounds like it’s going to be a fun event.  I hope to see [...]

New and Marginally Improved

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I’ve finally switched my blog theme so that it’s no longer one of the defaults. This new theme isn’t mine from scratch, but I did do some significant CSS tweaking to make it my own. There’s still work to do, as always, but I think it’s presentable. At least check out my sweet pic. It’s [...]

Category-Specific Feeds in WordPress

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed in the [...]

Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Those of you who are visiting my site in IE will notice my new alert, generated by the Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress. Quoth the alert: “Internet Explorer sucks. Jordy recommends Firefox (a free open-source alternative) so your browsing will suck no more forever. Click here to learn more or download.”
It’s a little spammy but [...]

Misspellings via RSS

Friday, February 24th, 2006

When you do a Google Toolbar spellcheck while editing a post in WordPress, bad HTML is inserted secretly onto your post. This HTML isn’t visible on your WordPress post, but it does show up via RSS (and when you view the page source) –even after you substitute the green links. If you subscribe via Bloglines, [...]