PetitOn

PetitOn Released Wednesday 2006-01-18

The new and stumbling blog PetitOn is released to the public today. It’s been hiding behind a robots.txt request to behaving seach crawlers and by absence of pings to other blogs. Today I found a smashing name for it, and decided to let it out of the closet to meet the hot air of your comments.

I don’t know what I’ll be writing about, but I’m confident I’ll think of a few things as time goes by. What’s in the blog just now are some few things about family matters. The rest are scribbelings and notes around my struggle with WordPress, my blogging platform.
In the nearest future I will try to tune and change the looks and functionality of the blog and I’m busy learning the technique and provide what little answers I can come up with on the WordPress Support wiki.

As you can see on the “About/Om” page, this blog is bilingual, because my family are Swedes, while I want an international public for the technical writing I’m sure to have.

You and your comments are welcome!

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Popping up images from thumbnails

Jeff Kalnitz describes in his “Posting pop-up images in WordPress” how you can pop up an image from a thumbnail in a post.
He provides a Javascript to handle the pop up window, that you cut and paste into your page header. In the tutorial he also describes the whole process of uploading and including the thumbnail and what code you have to insert around the thumbnails. Nice!

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Post plugins are here Sunday 2006-01-15

Post plugins are here

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Pinging myself Saturday 2006-01-14

I write this post referring to another of my posts, just to see if I get a pingback to myself.
It’s a nice story of my trettondagsafton in Swedish.

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I am giving this post a slug as the title is a bit lengthy

I am giving this post a slug to what effect it might have.
The slug is slugged_post

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Permalinks and .htacess Friday 2006-01-13

After all the fuss about permalinks and RSS not working using the .htacess way, I was a bit scared that I would garble the whole structure. Finally I took the dive and made an empty .htaccess file. I went to Options/Permalink and selected the /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ version. I got the dreaded 404 as many before me.

So I reinstated the index.php version and it all worked again – piiuuhh..
I the changed the access settings to 666 on the still empty .htaccess fiel and tried the same again.
Now it worked – hurrah!

WP had written the following into .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /blog/index.php # END WordPress