a handsome and familiar site for the library association of ireland
One of the things that is a little mysterious to people who are new to blogging is how people you mention on your blog seem to show up in your comments whenever their names come up. Simple, we use...
View Articlehi – 15aug
Hi. I had been getting a lot of spam through my contact form and I’ve switched to the Contact Form ][ plug-in. If you notice any weirdness trying to get ahold of me, please try to get me on chat, or...
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information need: mailto form for wordpress
A lot of housecleaning going on this weekend. I need a better contact form for this website. WordPress folks, what are you using? Is it mostly spamfree? Was it easy enough to install and administer?...
View Articlehi – 29aug
Hi. Thanks for bearing with me during my protracted WordPress upgrade. What’s that you say? You hardly noticed? That must because a) the WP upgrade process is pretty darned easy if you can read a...
View Articleanother wordpress update
I seem to have found a comment form that works; thanks to everyone for their advice and suggestions. I have also used a slightly modified version of the sociable plugin to add tiny links beneath each...
View Articlea few from the mailbag
There has been a definite drop-of fin email since I decided to get rid of the mailform and just post my email address which is a definite shame. However, I don’t get a lot of mail, so having to wade...
View Articlesee it’s in the URL
I changed my permalink structure a bit here. URLs to individual posts now contain the post number and the post title. They will also work with just the post number, so old URLs will work fine. I’m...
View Articlelibrarian.net is rocking wordpress 2.3
Hi. I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today because I just noticed a bug in the tagging plug-in I was using which means that any time I approved a comment for a particular post, the tags associated with that...
View Articlewordpress 2.5 upgrade complete
Hi. I’ve just updated to WordPress 2.5 and while I find the admin interface horrible, the web site seems to look okay. This upgrade fixes some pretty nasty vulnerabilities that the 2.3-ish version of...
View Articlewoodshedding in libraryland
Summertime is the time I usually have off from travel and even from a lot of local library work. While I’m waiting for one of the teeny libraries I work with to give me a contract — helping with...
View ArticleWordPress 2.6 open for business
Hi — I just upgraded my WordPress install and along with it, removed some old crusty plugins that I don’t think I was using anymore. If you come across something that is broken or working worse than it...
View ArticleMyKLOW gets websites to libraries that need them
“The My Kansas Library on the Web project is an attempt to allow small public libraries across the state have access to high end web-based tools to facilitate easy web development. Translation: It’s a...
View ArticleWebsite 2.0 – why a cms is in your future
I spent Friday at the NELA-ITS CMS Day. I gave the keynote in the morning, just talking about what CMSes are and why they’re useful with a little overview of a few, and then hung out to see other...
View Articlea few late summer links
I’ve been scooting around a little bit lately and here are some things that have been crossing my virtual desk. I’ve also dealt with two wordpress issues [a hack! and an outdated sidebar navigation...
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public service announcement: update your plugins and your About/FAQ pages
I am tidying up here because it is just starting to feel like Autumn and I was looking at a friend’s website and realizing that not only was their About page out of date, it had them living in the...
View ArticleA link roundup, a redesign, and hey I’m still here
Hiya! I needed to fix a thing with my reading list so I needed a widget-ready theme so I changed to this one and had a “to do” item to update and then a number of things happened, none of which are...
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Twice a decade whether it needs it or not
This is a theme update. I was looking for a way to sort of merge this blog and my newsletter. I have not managed that, but I did get this site looking fairly decent for now and maybe like it was...
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Ask A Librarian: setting up a WP site accessibly?
Image by: Seobility – License: CC BY-SA 4.0 I was talking to a woman on Twitter about this but it was worth re-stating st length. Building in website accessibility from the get-go is much better–both...
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