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Reactivate All Plugins feature in WordPress 2.5

1/22/2008 – 12:11 pm

Once upon a time, I whipped up a Reactivate All Plugins feature for WordPress, to compliment the Deactivate All Plugins action (which is recommended before an upgrade). [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Plugins, Tech, WordPress | Tagged features, interface, plugin, Plugins, reactivate, safemode, ui, usability, WordPress | Comments (45)

New theme, same as the old theme

10/16/2007 – 3:45 pm

I’ve done some minor maintenance around here. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. What I’ve done is upgraded my old Sandbox 0.6.1 theme to the new 1.0 version, and made a few minor adjustments to my CSS to account for the differences. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Themes, WordPress | Tagged categories, CSS, delicious, Flickr, Metadata, Sandbox, SemanticWeb, tagging, Tags, WordPress | Comments (11)

Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

9/22/2007 – 11:15 am

Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Tech, WordPress | Tagged API, delicious, Folksonomies, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, Tags, taxonomy, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (46)

Dougal 4.0

1/30/2007 – 1:20 pm

Today I turn the big Four-Oh. I’m not sure how I should feel about that. Since I’m a web development geek, how about we consider some possible responses in terms of HTTP 1.1 Status Codes:

I suppose the expected response would be 406 Not Acceptable. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Fun, Humor, Personal, Standards | Tagged Birthday | Comments (6)

Linkitude

3/15/2006 – 12:20 pm

The previous post was the first on this site that was auto-generated by the del.icio.us “daily blog posting” feature. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Microformats, Services, WordPress | Tagged Folksonomies, PHP, plugin, Tags, this-site | Comments (10)

Microformat for media descriptions

7/26/2005 – 10:06 am

I’m interested in coming up with a good metadata system for describing various sorts of media. Obviously, this ties in to my recent work on my “now playing” feature, and also into my interest in microformats. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Microformats, Standards, Tech | Tagged Media | Comments (2)

More on microformats

6/21/2005 – 2:43 pm

There is now a dedicated site for information about microformats: microformats.org

I’m working on a movie review using the hReview format. I’m hoping that we’ll see one of the big search engines start correlating microformat data soon. [...]