The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: WordPress

  • WordPress iOS App Gets a Complete Work Over in Version 2.7

    The iOS WordPress team just announced that the 2.7 version of their app has just hit the app store. I am actually typing and will publish this post from the app. Already the app feels very solid. I have not had any crashes or login issues that have plagued several…

  • Nailing Down Slow Performance in WordPress

    Going over the reasons why WordPress may be running slow. Includes checking your plugins, setting up caching, and looking at your web host.

  • I Think Google Chrome Killed My WordPress Blog

    I have been using Google Chrome on my MacBook for the last few months and have been happy with it – up until about a week ago. About a week ago it seemed that it started to run slower especially when I was in the admin section of a WordPress…

  • Still Trying to Troubleshoot FeedWordPress Issues

    Unfortunately the last few updates to the FeedWordPress plugin have not fixed the issues that I have been having. What is going on is that the meta data is not being pulled in to the individual posts when automatically searching for feeds and therefore it is not linking back to…

  • Why I Really Like WordPress 2.8

    I have been slowly updating the sites that run WordPress over the last week or so and have started to really love WordPress 2.8. The reason for this sudden burst of affection are a couple of new features that version 2.8 introduced. The first feature that I really like is…

  • WordPress 2.8 Release – Looking Good

    Last night WordPress 2.8 was released and I updated the idano.net website to check it out. The installation went without a hitch through the automatic upgrade process and from what I can tell nothing broke on my site. WordPress.org notes that the new items that were apart of this release…

  • Fessing Up and Building My Own WordPress Themes

    For client work I always work on a custom website design and layout and then transform that into WordPress template for the client’s website. For my personal sites I will admit that I generally rely on the work of others to get something up quickly and have even resorted to…

  • Playing With the WordPress iPhone 1.2 App

    WordPress has released their 1.2 version of their iPhone app. Noteable items that this update includes are: – Landscape Mode – New/editing pages – Comment moderation – Image resizing – Password protect posts I am using it to do this post and it seems to be working pretty well. Good…

  • Fixing FeedWordPress PermaLinks to the Original Website

    With the recent upgrade of the syndication plug-in FeedWordPress that I use on my network.idano.net syndication site the links on the articles were no longer linking back to the original website. A few people had noted this issue on the comments thread but no one provided any solutions. Because the…