The Vince Files

I’m just so amazed at how simple the upgrade process is!Â
I’ll be changing to a new theme soon.  I just have to find a 3-column, SEO-optimized, ad friendly one first.

I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  WooHoo!  Upgrade was a breeze.  Deactivate plug-ins, backup, copy files, reactivate plug-ins, done.
Now I just gotta see if my email notification still works.  I don’t remember where I set all the SMTP stuff.

WordPress comes with a stripped down version of the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It looks a bit boring:

original_wordpress_editor

So I decided to spruce it up a bit and download a plug-in that upgrades the text editor. I chose TinyMCE Advanced by Andrew Ozz and now it looks like this:

tinymce_advanced_wordpress_editor

Installation couldn’t be easier. [...]

I recently wrote a blog entry that had a link to one of Anna’s blog posts. WordPress is supposed to automatically send a trackback to that blog entry but it doesn’t seem to be working properly.
I found this test page to test my trackbacks. I’ll also link to my original Hello World post.

I was playing around with WordPress trying to find out how to open links in new windows (i.e. using target=”_blank”). I’m still getting to used to WordPress’ templating system and familiarizing myself with the include structure.
Then I found out that Google and other search engines may lower your PageRank if they find out you [...]

I’ve decided to start a new blog.
This blog is now running on the WordPress engine which uses PHP and MySQL for its scripting language and database respectively. All are free and open source software. I have them all running on Windows Server 2003 and IIS6…running in a Virtual PC…on Windows Vista…long story.
I’m trying to import [...]