podPress, iTunes and the FeedID

Posted July 7th, 2008 in News, WordPress by Dennis

For those of you struggling with podPress, wait to further. Well, you’ll have to way anyway, but here’s some things you should know:

FeedID: You’ll have to wait. It takes time for Apple and iTunes to check out your podcast. For me, I had to wait 3 days before I received a reply from iTunes regarding my feedID. Of course, that doesn’t mean podcast can be found on iTunes.

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podcasting with podPress

Posted July 3rd, 2008 in News, WordPress by Dennis

On another website I manage, we have been toying around with the idea of podcasting a few of the audio and video tracks we have accumulated over the years. The only problem is this: How in the heck does one ‘podcast‘?

Now, some of my friends have done it with much success (of course, because I’ve downloaded them all to my iPod). So, the task was to determine the best way to use WordPress with some sort of PodCasting plugin that would give us exactly what we needed. With as much programming experience I have, I never felt that I would not be able to determine the best solution.

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Adding pages to the WordPress GridLock Theme’s nav bar & header

Posted April 17th, 2007 in WordPress by Dennis

For those that simply cannot figure out EXACTLY how to add new pages they’ve created for their blog into the header. I may have more detailed instructions:

You’ll have to manually edit the the header.php file in the Theme Editor. Toward the bottom of the file, you’ll find where the page listings are stored. Just locate the the comment that says:

— change these links to suit your site –

You should find the div class=’nav’ tag that adds the ‘home’ link just below that. Just copy & paste another version of that line for each ‘page’ button you want to add. Edit it the copied line like this:

<div class=”nav”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/name-of-page” title=”name-of-page”>name-of-page-to-display-in-nav-bar</a></div>

I hope this helps.

Up and running…

Posted April 8th, 2007 in WordPress by Dennis

Now that the complicated hosting switch from Linux to Windows and BACK to Linux is completed, I can get back to rebuilding this blog. For the Comics In Action website, there are still a few items that need to be fixed / tweaked:

  1. Rebuild email contact list. I recall transferring the hotmail contact list to another format, before I could import them into Net-Sol’s email contact list, but at the moment I forget what I needed to do. I just wish I hadn’t deleted those files after I completed the transfer the first time. Oh, well.
  2. Fix the newsletter form. I think I can do this by tweaking it’s css file. I wish that Net-Sol would allow me to edit existing cgi forms, rather than force me do delete them if they don’t look right.
  3. There may be a bug in the current javascript for randomizing a couple graphics. I suspect it may have to do the HTML 4.0 / 4.01 Transitional DTD all the pages currently use. I’ll have to check out www.w3c.org to confirm this.
  4. Danuuc has yet to get me the graphics that Spoon & Butters want me to use for their Agent pages.

Is that it? I’m sure I’ll find more stuff as this week rolls by.