Aldoblog

I found myself unable to resist the draw of the cool. I had to go and upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

As I have been working on this site, I’ve visited quite a few other weblogs run by WordPress, and occasionally see something that I’d like to know how to do myself. A little widget here, a list of related posts there, etc. Cool things, but nothing that says how to do them. So, if anyone ever has that thought about my site, here’s the info. (Hopefully other WordPress users will do this for their sites.)

2004 was a decent year for us, and as always (at least since I started this blog), I like to take a few moments to reflect on some of the important things that happened.

I’ve run into a slight problem with the Staticize caching plug-in I was using to speed up WordPress on this site. It seems that $post->post_date isn’t correctly calculated on cached entries, even when you put them “outside” the cached page, and this screws up the time display on individual entries.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday working on a few last lingering details for this site. The main changes I wanted to make were to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (a minor security update), make sure I was using the latest version of the Kubrick template (I was), and most importantly, fix the problems I was having with the Kubrick comments form.

This evening I looked at this site’s error log, and found old URLs that no longer worked. And fixed most of them.

One of the funny things about converting from one weblog system to another was that I discovered a bunch of old posts which never got, well, posted.

I’ve been dicking around with WordPress on my test system long enough. LTFP.

OK, this time I really mean it, I’m back online with this weblog.

Problem: For some reason, even though your PHP include_path does contain the location of your include file, PHP cannot seem to actually include() the file. The paths match exactly, and yet you still get errors.