- http://www.wpmadesimple.org/downloads/WordPress-Toolbar-Cribsheet.pdf
- Really great simple cribsheet. Let’s see if I can use it to enhance my (exceedingly basic) blog-style…
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WordPress Cribsheet
Friday, March 15th, 2013WordPress Upgrade to 3.5.1: My Immediate Issues & Fixes
Friday, March 15th, 2013Recently, my Hosting account received an upgrade on WordPress to version 3.5.2. Some immediate issues:
- Sudden increase in Spam user-comments
- Possibly coincidental, but can’t help wondering whether its associated with the upgrade, like maybe it caused blog pages to be more spam-machine-compatible? Just a gut-feeling, no knowledge or evidence.
- The volume was not impossible to handle manually, just irritating.
- I chose to enable a shielding-service. It seems to be working so far, blocking Spam but of course at the cost of discouraging user-comments, as well as some other things…
- Toolbar did not have the Indent button. In fact only the first half of that toolbar was present, buttons like Bold and Indent buttons are normally to be found in the second row of that toolbar, which was not present.
- Fix: Click the right-most button, whose ToolTip says, unhelpfully, “wordpress.wp_adv_desc” (sounds to me like some unfinished programming…). It enables the second row of the toolbar.
Better WordPress Blogs at 1&1
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011This blog is hosted at 1&1 where I use their default Blog option from my account’s Control Panel. It works but is extremely limited and the web-based editing facility is cluncky and glitchy, while its resulting text layout is …well.. pathetic. So I googled around to see what others have done about it – what am I missing? It seems the best way is to create a fresh blog based on more current /comprehensive WordPress software working with the MySQL database that comes as part of the 1&1 packag. Just one concern, before I leap into it: how do I migrate existing content off the existing blog (preferably retaining their existing timestamps) ?
WordPress – Getting Spaces Between Paragraphs
Sunday, May 8th, 2011Issues:
- In this blog, I never moved beyond novice newbie level of WordPress use. I’m using the WordPress service that comes as part of OneAndOne’s hosting. I edit via their web-based editor, which I now realise is a widely used one, called TinyMCE. That editor is frustrating to use, not only because it is fragile and clunky but in particular if I try to break text into paragraphs then it removes the break, producing a single block of text. Surely there is a better way, but I have little time to invest in looking into this.
- The main workaround I have been using is to employ bullet-point lists. Each paragraph goes under its own bullet-point. The result doesn’t look too great but at least it’s better than monolithic blocks of text.
But there are other ways.
The simplest, I just discovered right now (by making a fortunate mistake) is to click the Indent button, even when there are no bullet points. This seems to put the text into a paragraph-respecting mode.
I wish I had found this a long time ago! Though it’s still a bit clunky/fragile, e.g. how come this very line didn’t get spaced only one line below the previous paragraph…
There is also another approach:
- http://www.picker.it/tricks/space-between-paragraphs-in-wordpress.html
- Add a paragraph style into the style.css file.
- What style.css file? Somewhere on my ISP’s server? How do I access it?
- Add a paragraph style into the style.css file.
- http://rubayathasan.com/wordpress/plugin/enabling-line-break-in-wordpress/
- This one seems best, but how do I add a plugin? My ISP’s control panel doesn’t appear to have any “add extra plugins” option.
- TinyMCE-Advanced from wordpress is a wordpress plugin, which adds the option to disable the removal of <p> and <br> tags when saving a post and in the HTML editor (autop). After installing-activating, the option to enable line breaks can be found in the Settings->TinyMCE Advanced pane.
Can I upgrade the version of WordPress on my OneAndOne package?
- http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2009/07/14/upgrade-wordpress-to-2-8-1-on-1and1/
- Title: “Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.1 on 1and1”