Laptop Legal » WordPress http://www.laptoplegal.com Law pratice management for the solo and small firm mobile legal professional Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:18:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WordPress 2.7 http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/wordpress-27.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/wordpress-27.htm#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:29:00 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=51 Managed to update one of my other blogs to WordPress 2.7 and the latest Thesis theme — went pretty smoothly especially with OpenHook for Thesis. I did a whole new install and imported my old site and had my plugins installed and site configured pretty quickly (couple of hours total).

I very much recommend upgrading if you haven’t already, especially as it looks like it has several SEO features already built in. It also might be a good time to try a new theme that takes advantage of some of the changes in WordPress.

]]> http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/wordpress-27.htm/feed 1 OPML of full WordPress linkroll http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/opml-of-full-wordpress-linkroll.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/opml-of-full-wordpress-linkroll.htm#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:31:12 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=47 WordPress doesn’t have a linkroll export function, though it does have an import function. Want access to your full set of links to export? Go to:

/wordpressinstallfolder/wp-links-opml.php

In your browser, and “save as”, making sure the extension is “.xml”. Bonus – Firefox 3 already recognises that it’s an OPML file (what links are stored) in and does the “hard work” of renaming your file for you.

The only drawback is if you are importing it to another WordPress install that it doesn’t import your categories (if you have different categories of links).

]]> http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/opml-of-full-wordpress-linkroll.htm/feed 0 See /stats on your WordPress blog http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/see-stats-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/see-stats-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:02:15 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=41 I’ve just migrated one of the sites I maintain and had to re-edit the .htaccess file to allow /stats to be available. Before, every time I tried to visit foo.com/stats it went to a 404 error on my WordPress install (it couldn’t find the page).

This is because I had URL rewriting turned on with my blog, which allows user friendly URLs but can prevent accessing server stats locating in the /stats folder (because it rewrites that too).

The solution is to edit the .htaccess file, which is a file that tells the server how to behave when it comes to URLs.

I use Dreamhost, which has a solution in its wiki. All it takes is firing up TextEdit in plain text mode and adding the following before the WordPress code:


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . - [L]
</IfModule>

I used Cyberduck to FTP into the site, set it to view hidden files (files starting with a “.” are hidden) downloaded it as a *.txt document edited it, and popped it back on the server (again using Cyberduck). Finally rename the current one to something like htaccess.bak (as a back up) and change the name of the file you just uploaded to “.htaccess”.

And you’re done!

]]> http://www.laptoplegal.com/2009/see-stats-on-your-wordpress-blog.htm/feed 0 Favicon for your wordpress blog http://www.laptoplegal.com/2008/favicon-for-your-wordpress-blog.htm http://www.laptoplegal.com/2008/favicon-for-your-wordpress-blog.htm#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:08:40 +0000 Jordan http://www.laptoplegal.com/?p=27 I was looking to add a favicon to one of my other blogs today, and discovered the Blog Icons plugin for WordPress that lets you do it relatively painlessly.

Blog Icons WordPress Codex

I made a 16 by 16 pixel favicon in png format using GIMP, the open source photo manipulation program I tend to use on the MacBook Pro. You can also use Seashore, which runs in OS X without the need for the X11 Window system.

You simply need to just download the Blog Icons plugin and upload it to your plugins folder in your WordPress install. Go to you admin page and enable the plugin. Afterwards there is a new option in your settings folder for Blog Icons.

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