Thu Tu’s Blog

This weekend, I decided to edit my custom sidebar code to be compatible with Wordpress Widgets, which is:
designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of
your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any
code.
Wordpress v. 2.2 has the capability built into the core code. Earlier versions require using a plugin.
Since [...]

Oh My Friggin Goodness. Internet Explorer makes me so mad.
Just to see how things looked in IE, I randomly checked a blog post that contained code, and one of the lines of code was obscured by a horizontal scrollbar! I compared the post in Firefox. It turned out the particular line of code was so [...]

If you want to enable commenting on a Wordpress page (as opposed to a post), you would need to add the following in the theme’s page.php file, which is the default template for pages:
<?php comments_template(); ?>
If you created a custom template file, you would need to put the code in that file also.
That’s pretty straightforward [...]

I wanted to switch my blog’s title tag to go from:
Thu Tu’s Blog > Post Title
to
Post Title | Thu Tu’s Blog
It turned out that it wasn’t as simple as switching the tokens around in the theme’s header.php file.
I did a search and found the solution here.
When I copied and pasted the example code, I got [...]

After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my Wordpress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant.
Cons to using or switching to pretty urls

I like the flexibility [...]

Wordpress recently released version 2.2, and today I upgraded my blog. This new version addressed one of the two issues that bugged me recently. It no longer changes <embed> to <ibed>. However, it still changed div tags to p when I include code in my posts. I’ll just have to re-implement the changes I made [...]

I was having two irritating issues with the Wordpress editor, which affected my highslide and Google video code. It took a lot of research but I’ve finally figured out how to edit the code in the Tiny MCE file to make the editor stop acting like it’s smarter than me. The location of the file [...]