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Tweaking the header

Some notes, mostly for myself, about how I chaged the header image and the way the title is displayed. I bet this will be usefull after the next WordPress update when the theme most likely gets reset back to default. To get a header image that 'rotates' i.e. is updated with a new random picture [...]

Wodpress 2.0.5 "Ronan"

I've upgraded to the latest WordPress, and like I feared, that has broken my theme (the look and feel of the site). So the site will look a bit strange for a few days until I find time and energy to fix it. Why can't the theme and look of a wordpress site just stay the same [...]

Using Akismet to block spam

I've started using Akismet to block spam comments sent to the blog. Akismet requires an API key, and getting that key requires an account on wordpress.com. So I've setup a dummy acount: awallin.wordpress.com

WordPress 2.0

I have upgraded the site to WordPress 2.0, mainly because of the much improved 'Write Post' interface, now a WYSIWYG editor called tinymce. The upgrade has broken my theme and some of my plugins so it will take a few days before everything is working again... Update: The theme is now somehow working again and [...]

Fixed problems with permalinks and stattraq/mostwanted

For a while now I have had the stattraq and mostwanted plugins installed. The idea is that stattraq logs statistics of how many users are visiting, which pages are popular etc. into a database. Then mostwanted picks out the most popular posts and lists them in the sidebar on the left. Up until now I [...]

www.anderswallin.net launched

Blog launched. The idea is to move over all my previously separate webpages to this system: homepage, iom-pictures, iom-info, and radiosailing links. moving all the material will take some time... this site is hosted at dot5hosting and runs WordPress. The theme is my own modification of the default theme. It's a fixed width theme, meant [...]