Linda B. Cole

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Wordpress Plugins

Monday, May 14th, 2007

I’m thrilled. In the last few days, I’ve moved this domain to a new server. In the process, I also installed three plugins to control spam comments. When I first moved to the new server I hadn’t set up any spam control and in two days had 1305 spam comments. After installing [...]

LayoutStudios[dot]com

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

LayoutStudios[dot]com
This site has some really cool themes. They’re sure worth checking out!

disappearing text in IE

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Cool, I was just reading through some CSS tutorials when I came across Webcredible’s “Ten More CSS Tricks You May Not Know“.  Tip #6 discusses a strange bug in IE that causes text next to a floated item to disappear. The fix is quite simple, just add position: relative to the CSS element that defines [...]

Theme of the month

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Well, the new theme of the month is up.  It’s opposite ends of the spectrum from my previous “Lady in WLhite” theme.  This one is based on “Pray for Mercy” designed by Shelby and was fairly easy to customize.  Glad I got it finished up tonight.  Tomorrow morning is back to work, with no time [...]

I take it all back…

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

…everything I was thinking about wordpress. A search of the wordpress forums solved my upgrade problems. If you should run into the ‘blank’ page problem when upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0, be sure to check out this page. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54008?replies=39. Set everything up for the upgrade, then follow all of the instructions you [...]

Wordpress 2.0 ~sheesh~

Friday, January 13th, 2006

I have never had problems installing/upgrading Wordpress. Version 2.0 is another story! Three days later, I’ve finally given up on the famous 5 minute install and reverted to version 1.5. I tried an upgrade, a clean install. Nothing! I get a blank page after I click ‘upgrade’ or ‘install’, no [...]