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Broken WordPress theme can hurt: This is how to recover.

yuval — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:09:03 +0000

If you ever install a WordPress theme that causes you to see blank screens for both the admin (!) and the blog itself, do this:

Go to your Worpdress installation directory, and rename the offensive theme’s directory to something else. WordPress will detect the problem and revert to the original theme. You can then access the blog’s administrative area again.

Thanks to this post.

Fix WordPress ‘Press This’ 404 error

yuval — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:27:19 +0000

Apparently WordPress has a newfangled bookmarklet (newfangled to me) that allows you to quickly post about stuff you love. Bookmarklets are awesome, btw. But it did not work, most likely because I use the search-friendly, meaningful URLs. The post I Googled gives you an idea into how to fix it but it did not work for me. Try this code instead of the one he mentions, and follow his instructions:

javascript:var d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f='http://www.YOURDOMAINHERE.com/wp-admin/press-this.php',l=d.location,yz=l.href.replace(///g,'\/'),e=encodeURIComponent,g=f+'?u='+e(yz)+'&t='+e(d.title)+'&s='+e(s)+'&v=2';function a(){if(!w.open(g,'t','toolbar=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=720,height=570')){l.href=g;}}setTimeout(a,0);void(0);

Enjoy.

Enabling Tags in Windows Live Writer for WordPress

yuval — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:31:28 +0000

I started using Windows Live Writer about 6 months ago as it was a surprisingly useful tool coming from the most surprising source, Microsoft. It actually worked, see. One feature that I was missing though, and made me stop using it was the fact that I could not get it to tag posts. I love tagging, well, I fell in love with tagging and I was willing to bear the awful editors WordPress provides in order to just do that, tag. So today I updated the version of Live Writer to the latest release candidate. Never mind the totally awful classic Microsoft uber uber bloatware (to download one update you end up with almost 200MB of unrelated crap) â€“ the fail machine cannot change, can it? â€“ and voila, I have the new Live Writer. And it still cannot tag the way WordPress does it. Its tagging is meant to correlate your posts to sites like Delicious and Technorati. Not what I wanted. Luckily I found this awesome tool that turns on a setting in Live Writer to do that. Run the downloadable program, restart Live Writer and press F2 to show an additional form, that includes tags for your own blog. Yay!

This is how it looks in the end. Yay useful. Thanks Microsoft!