- I'm an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student [still] going to Brigham Young University. This blog is just a place where I can spill out my thoughts, projects and experiences. I hope you like what you see and please feel free to comment. Thanks for visiting!
Tag Archives: wordpress
My Blog’s New Look – Making A Child Theme of Twenty Ten
I realized after a recent upgrade to WordPress 3.0 and after changing my blog’s address that I was tired of my old blog’s look. I was really impressed with the new default theme for 3.0: Twenty Ten. It’s simple, aesthetically pleasing, and supports all the new features of 3.0.
Since my new job requires me to learn a lot of PHP and HTML I’ve used some of my new skills in developing a child theme for Twenty Ten. Child themes are great! They allow you to basically extend and customize an existing theme in a way that won’t break if the theme gets an update.
Posted in Project
Tagged change Twenty Ten, child theme, CSS, custom search box, custom template, HTML, php, Twenty Ten, wordpress
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Changing My WordPress Blog URL and Using Lighttpd to Redirect
My blog’s old domain, law-family.org and bradford.law-family.org, are set to expire in November. The reason I initially registered the law-family.org domain was to create a family website. My family
traditionally has communicated by mass email and reply-all conversations and I thought it would help to give them something different. They rarely used it however so I decided to simply focus on my own blog, that’s why it’s now theblawblog.com. Since I have several articles that get regular hits from search engines, I worried that my articles wouldn’t be very visible. I decided to try writing up some redirect rules for my old domain in the lighttpd config file so that anyone going to my old blog links would be redirected to their new addresses.
Posted in Linux, Project
Tagged lighttpd, lightty, mod_redirect, new domain, new url, redirect, wordpress
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Windows Live Writer, lighttpd, and WordPress xmlrpc.php
I love Windows Live Writer. I use it now for all my blog editing. Recently though, after setting up my new SheevaPlug as my server and using lighttpd instead of apache as my webserver I found that I can’t use it. I got the following error trying to add my blog to my new install of WLW:
An error occurred while attempting to connect to your blog:
Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid:
Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server
You must correct this error before proceeding.
Turning My SheevaPlug Into A Web Server
After I got Ubuntu running on my Plug, I started going about turning it into what I originally planned for it; LAMP, UPnP, and Torrent server.
I first found a great resource for playing with the plug: OpenPlug.org. The wiki in particular has some good tips, the first of which I followed below.
Install Root FS on SDHC Card
By default, the SheevaPlug has 512MB of NAND flash memory for storage, and 512MB or RAM. When you boot your plug from NAND it copies the necessary files to a RAM disk (a virtual disk on RAM which disappears when the plug is powered off). If I understand correctly, this will in effect reduce the available RAM since some of it is used by the file system.
Server Update!
In my post Ch-ch-changes! I spoke about getting WordPress to run on IIS 7, Vista, etc. It was a huge pain. 2 days ago I had a genius idea that I was surprised I hadn’t thought of before. What prompted it was an article on Engadget about a tiny linux computer that would fit in a wall wart – TINY! It has a relatively powerful ARM processor (usually used in cell phones) with 512 MB RAM and 512 MB onboard flash memory. The first thing I thought about that was: LAMP server! I have to wait until the price drops to $50 to see if it will work.