The Glob – Alligator vector artwork finished

Got more photos last night in email last night from Richard of the Alligator tail, so I was able to finish up that piece of vector artwork.

Next: Onto the crazy monkey riding the pig.

Moving a WordPress website

Wow, what a morning.

In a matter of minutes, I tried to do two things in WordPress, one upgrade and one switching of a site to a new folder and…I broke both sites.

I read the instructions in the codex for moving a website to a new folder. (Taken from the WordPress website –
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)

Here are the step-by-step instructions:

Create the new location using one of these two options:

If you will be moving your WordPress core files to a new directory, create the new directory.

If you want to move WordPress to

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How do I get rid of / disable the sidebar in WordPress? Templates, of course.

This was the question I was grappling with yesterday. Since the site is database driven, how do you make one specific page act differently than the rest? I needed the whole width real estate on the church’s blog for a calendar, but I wanted the sidebar on every other page, just not that one.

Well, in most templating systems, you have different templates you apply to different pages. It just seemed to be downplayed when you are considering using Word Press as your CMS.

I happened to stumble across this option when …

Upgrading Rotheblog to WordPress 2.3

Wow, what a crazy amount of trial and error, mostly because I forgot the “De-activate” plugins step.

So, I followed all of the backup processes but the plugins piece. I didn’t realize this until after I was thinking about what could be causing my problems.

Here the first post I piggy-backed onto which was a little off topic, pertaining to RC 1, and the post I started in the WordPress forums.

Needless to say, it got me more comfortable moving around in PHPMyAdmin, dropping tables, doing double installs of

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Got new Diodes for the G07

I got another sample from Allied Electronics, 5 of them to be exact. I had gone to Meunier downtown to pick up pretty much the same part a couple of weeks back, but was confused. The replacement part I got was rated the same, but it was physically twice the size of the diode I pulled off of the chassis. So, I waited.

I called Allied, and they gave me the information about the rating so I just had them send me a few. I …

WordPress 2.3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

WordPress 2.3 is supposed to be released as a final version today. RC1 was released late last Monday for people to do final testing before the published release.

Fortunately my site isn’t really live yet, so testing out the RC1 wouldn’t be a big deal. But I decided to just install a fresh version on a different server and do the testing I needed.

I wanted to make sure some of my plugins worked, specifically Kimili Flash Plugin and WP-Sticky. Both of them worked like a charm. I …