Archive for the ‘wordpress’ Category

Using SyntaxHighlighter to Format Code in WordPress

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Based on a question in the StackOverflow beta site, I did some quick research into what are the best ways to perform syntax highlighting on code that is posted on blogs. Among the methods that were suggested (by myself or others): Hack together your own display logic to format it as ...

Trying out Windows Live Writer

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

In honor of its officially coming out of beta, I decided to download and try out Windows Live Writer. Some of the features that attracted me are the ability to use one interface to publish on a number of different blogs at the same time, through a desktop client, without having ...

Setting up a Customized Blog in 7 Easy Steps

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

When a person chooses to create a new blog, there are two routes to choose from: you can use one of the popular hosted blogging services (like Blogger or Wordpress.com) or you host the blog yourself. The first option is definitely the easiest - someone else worries about all of ...

Upgrading WordPress through Shell

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I was very proud of myself for upgrading from Wordpress 2.1 to 2.1.1 within a few days after it was released. At least until I read about the entire 2.1.1 release having been compromised to some hacker. Even though I had probably downloaded the new Wordpress build before it was ...