Category Archives: Web and Tech

Tech stuff and entries about other places on the web.

ircd setup

Published September 1, 2010

Whilst messing around with ircd to set up a sandpit environment (as I’ve recently gone back into IRC to check out the WordPress IRC channels and wanted to remind myself about how a few things work.) I discovered that- ircd-seven is used by freenode, but there is not a whole lot of information about it. [...]

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WordPress Support

Published August 25, 2010

It’s nice to get a mention. And so it’s pleasant to read the WordPress support forum all-stars post on weblogtools collection, because I’m noted in there for my continued presence on the WordPress support forums, attempting to help folk out. I’ve been frequenting the forums for a while now, and whilst some questions are beyond [...]

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Dimensions

Published August 21, 2010

The howbigreally site shows you historic events, natural disasters, war zones, and suchlike and lets you plot the scale of them over places you know. Try it!

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Adding custom navigation menu theme support

Published August 12, 2010

I’ve put together the bare bones of how to add WordPress 3+ navigation menu support into your themes into this Navigation Menus Codex page. What’s covered in there is the method I’ve used to add the menu support to this site, so it should be easy enough for most folk to use! If you have [...]

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Media Temple hit again?

Published August 6, 2010

Numerous media temple (and so far only media temple) users are reporting in the WordPress forums of their sites being hacked. The symptom appears to be a redirection script being injected, with a source referencing a domain oeaou.com. Some cleanup steps can be found in the thread here as well as the traditional codex what [...]

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