BrT

As part of the big move, I have decided to close BrT. This site will remain up for reference, but I will make no new posts after this one, and shortly the Wordpress engine will disappear from behind the scenes and the site will become a static mirror.
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I just finished the ugprade to Wordpress 2.7. I was more careful than usual given the big update (normally I just overwrite the files, this time I actually followed the instructions), but everything apparently went fine. I really like the new admin screen, it’s much cleaner and clearer. Please let me know if you find [...]

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I have installed the Intense Debate plugin for handling comments on this blog. Not that there are that many comments , just to see how it works. I think it’s nice that it automatically synchronizes comments two ways to the regular WP comments, so that if you disable it, all the comments are still [...]

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I saw an article on wprecipes.com describing how to display a random header image in a Wordpress blog. While the code shown works, it is a bit verbose and hard to maintain, so I thought I’d show how the random image in the header of this blog is done.
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In one of my private blogs, I use the excellent IImage Gallery plugin to show photographs. After the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, all of the posts with galleries started failing by showing the message “There is no gallery in this post”. After puzzling about it for a while, I realized that this plugin uses the [...]

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