Archive for the 'Website News' Category

20
May
2007

WordPress 2.2 Upgrade

I just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.2. Hopefully things will all work. Preliminary testing seems to show every thing as fine.

15
March
2007

What’s Your Blog Worth?

My blog is worth $313,319.70.How much is your blog worth? So I happened upon an interesting site today. Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, the author created a little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio [...]

7
February
2007

Moving Time

After several years with my current provider I have moved shupe.ca from BackSun to a new hosting service NetFirms.

6
April
2006

404 Header Fix for WordPress Google SiteMaps

If you are having problems getting Googles Sitemaps to verify your site Try modifying your theme as described by Christian Swanson: If you use WordPress with a Google SiteMap Plugin and you tried to verify the ownership of your blog with Google, you’ve probably seen the error, “We’ve detected that your 404 (file not found) [...]

4
April
2006

New Sidebar Widgets Plugin

The folks over at WordPress just anounced a new Plugin for adding sidebar Widgets. I have updated both my themes and plugins to support the new widgets architecture. I have sent other plugin developers updates for their plugins that I use.

12
March
2006

WordPress 2.0 Upgrade Complete

Back in December I posted that WordPress just release version 2.0. Since this version contains a major overhaul to the backend I postponed the upgrade. Well version 2.0.2 was release last week so I felt it was finally time to do the upgrade. I was concerned with the amount of work I would need to [...]

26
August
2005

Vancouver Nights

As I mentioned before the theme I use for this site is based on a template by Oliver Roick called Amsterdam Nights but with a few enhancements. One of those enhancements was to widen the template to better utilize a 800×600 browser window. I recently recieved a request by Nate from Paperback Writer for a [...]

15
August
2005

WordPress 1.5.2 Released

The guys at WordPress just release version 1.5.2. This version features security fixes, improvements to plugin API as well a number of bugfixes. An easy upgrade guide can always be found at the WordPress Codex. I will start the upgrade process once I return from vacation, and although I suspect every thing will work flawlessly, [...]

6
July
2005

HaloScan Hacks Part2 – Retrieving comments with PHP to add to pages.

After I implemented HaloScan as a method of storing my comments for my blogs, I also wanted to add comment functionality to the Photo Gallery section of the site. I wanted a way to display these comments on the actual pages and needed to develop a hack to do this. The hack is straight forward [...]

5
July
2005

HaloScan Hacks Part1 – Make advertisements disappear from HaloScan comments windows.

Once I implemented Blogger as a blogging system I started playing with adding comments to my blog. Using Blogger I created a template to generate RSS 2.0 feeds. As I also wanted to add comment functionality to the Photo Gallery section of the site, Bloggers comments were insufficient for this need. At this point I [...]