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WordPress has a “feature” where it takes what you write, disregards your wishes and does whatever it wants with it.
It mangles things like quotes and hyphens. This really irritates me, but I was never pissed off at the right moment to want to look into fixing it.
However, WordPress version 3.6 decided to use Ellipses (…) instead of three dots (…) which I found while in the right mood. If there were a WordPress developer handy, there would be a WordPress developer with their hands pulled off.
WordPress > Parament WordPress theme >
A a child theme for Parament WordPress theme.
These notes are somewhat universal to the child theme process, though likely somewhat out of date.
I found a reproducible bug on wordpress.com around 2010-04-11 or so, where images are not deleted when the user supposedly deletes them.
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Somehow my postings always have a couple of issues that I find after posting them. I always find myself editing and re-editing and re-re-editing a post to improve it, even though I scan it carefully a couple of times before the initial post. I guess I’m still a wiki user at heart.
My apologies to anyone who is subscribed via RSS, as they will probably be fed the original creation. =/
Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
https://videopress.com/
https://web.archive.org/*/davepress.net/2009/06/14/videopress/
A WordPress plugin which allows you to host videos.
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Blogging is an interesting concept. It’s something I’ve toyed with since before the term was coined.
It’s never seemed to be particularly useful to me. Each item is a kind of pointless bit of gossip whose usefulness is at first questionable and which becomes less and less valuable over time.
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2017-08-02 — Exporting through the WordPress panel is not reliable and is broken for large blogs.
- I use PhpMyAdmin and dump the entire table as an SQL file.
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2015-12-10 — My concerns are no longer valid.
- It’s easy enough to FTP-download the images, and re-upload them to a new place.
- Exporting and importing the “WordPress eXtended RSS” (WXR) file is trivial.
- A simple XML file is small enough that there should be no file size concerns.
While there are export and import features in /wp-admin/export.php, I did some thinking and research to learn that there some issues with the functionality.
- Importing a large database is non-trivial
- There is no file/image backup-and-restore
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Changing URLs requires setting changes or database editing
[update] Ya know, a week after all this work, I learned that you could add more than one text widget. Sigh.
Creating pages automatically puts navigation links overtop of the header image.
I don’t like the automatic page links.
