WordPress Update to v2.6.3

By Jay Shergill Posted on October 24, 2008 Posted in Author, Free, Javascript, MySQL, Not Workers Compensation, Open Source, PDRater, PHP, Technobabble, Website Updates, Wordpress No Comments Tagged with Author Website, Control Panel, Dashboard, Decimal Places, Free Scan, Keeping Score, kitten it, new year, Paragraphs, Referential, Support Group, Virtues, Website Content, Website Owner, Website Visitor, Website Visitors, Wordpress

Quick Update

or those of you keeping score at home, I’ve updated to WordPress v2.6.3 last night. ((Talk about unnecessary decimal places.)) This version was released as a security fix. Unlike other WordPress upgrades, this one took only a few seconds.

Less Quick Updates

Admittedly, prior updates probably only take about 10 minutes, max. This 10 minutes includes roughly 9 minutes of backing the website and database up and 1 minute of actually uploading the new version. Since the 9 minutes of backing up is essentially all processing/downloading time, there’s nothing for me to monitor which makes the whole process very painless.

Upcoming Updates

The kind folks over at WordPress have been hard at work on the version 2.7. ((I call them “kind” since a lot of these people are working for free.)) If you scan through the above link, you’ll get to see what the new WordPress 2.7 control panel/dashboard is supposed to look like.

Best Thing About WordPress

(If you just can’t wait, skip down two paragraphs.) Regular readers have heard me go on and on about the virtues of WordPress. ((You know, you three should really form some kind of support group for people who read unnecessarily nerdy and self-referential blogs.)) The interesting thing about new versions of WordPress is that any upgrades would be seamless to a website visitor. ((I think its interesting, anyhow.))

A website that is easy to read is a function of the author

Website content is really all that matters to a website visitor. Visitors don’t care about what software a website owner is using – just as long as the content is useful. ((If they don’t care about what kind of software, they sure as heck don’t care its version 2.6.3.))

A website that is easy to write is a function of the program

The single best thing about WordPress is that this program makes maintaining a website a breeze. I would recommend WordPress to absolutely anyone interested in creating a website. For the novice, the program makes it easy to write, edit, and delete single pages or the entire website without any knowledge of programming. For the tech-minded, the program makes it easy to install, upgrade, and personalize a website.

If you know a little PHP, MySQL, and javascript you could do some c-r-a-z-y things with WordPress. ((You could even put together your own workers compensation calculators and EAMS search engines!)) ((Am I going overboard with these footnotes?)) ((The answer is “No, I’m not going overboard.” In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller, “You can never go too far.”))

Another WordPress Update

By Jay Shergill Posted on September 11, 2008 Posted in Free, Open Source, PDRater, Technobabble, Website Updates No Comments Tagged with Free Open Source, kitten it, new year, Virtues

Last night I upgraded from WordPress v2.6.1 to WordPress v2.6.2. You’ve heard me extoll the virtues of WordPress. Free, open source, easy to modify and customize, highly secure and… updated (infuriatingly) often.

If you see any weirdness, please let me know so I can take a look at the issue.

Homemade WordPress 2.6+ Plugins

By Jay Shergill Posted on September 2, 2008 Posted in AJAX, Free, Javascript, Open Source, PDRater, PHP, Technobabble No Comments Tagged with Accordion, Credit Card, new year, Paypal Account, Programming Code, Subscriptions, Tweaks, Wordpress

If you’re at all curious, I’ve written about four eight of the plugins for this website. WordPress was specifically written to allow users to create their own plugins. A “plugin” is a little piece of programming code that will modify how a program behaves.

I’ll discuss them later on, but for the ravenously curious my plugins include:

A plugin that creates rounded corners throughout the website
A plugin that creates the “accordion” menu effect on the Links and Calculator pages
A plugin that adds AJAX effects throughout the website
A plugin that creates a “gray-out” screen over certain pages when you’re not logged in or a registered user
A plugin that redirects a user to the calculator page when they log in
A plugin that changes the look and operation of the registration page to be more user friendly
A plugin that makes lots of little tweaks to the site to make it look and act better (I’m constantly adding to this one)
A plugin that allows users to sign up for automatically recurring subscriptions using a credit card or their PayPal account (I’m still working to make this more user friendly)

I Heart WordPress

By Jay Shergill Posted on August 4, 2008 Posted in Cell Phones, Free, Open Source, PDRater, Technobabble No Comments Tagged with Cell Phone, Current, Customize, Dictaphone, E Mail, Heart, Little Things In Life, Mail Processing, Multitude, new year, Ringtone, Shortcuts, Word Processing Programs

Mostly because its so flipping cool.

I’m one of those kinds of people who likes to customize their things to suit them better. My junky cell phone has a custom ringtone I created, custom welcome/power-on message, my e-mail and word processing programs have tons of little shortcuts to make my life a little easier in a multitude of ways. My dictaphone has a sticker on it. ((A sticker of a jet.))

The great thing about WordPress is that the entire program is SO customizable. You can change how it looks with “Themes” and how it acts with “Plugins.” I’ve been using it since March or so, even though it wasn’t publicly launched until July. I’m still finding all of these cool little features.

My current favorite feature: The ability to schedule a post. I can draft a quick post and then schedule it to appear on a particular day or time. Brilliant!

Its the little things in life, you know?

Fire Department Equipment Modifications

By Jay Shergill Posted on September 15, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Not Workers Compensation No Comments Tagged with equipment modification, Fire Department, fire hat, safety modification, station fire

I ran across this website a few days ago. It’s a website devoted to the homemade modifications firefighters make to their tools and gear to make their lives easier and fighting fires safer. ((Photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk)) Hopefully a firefighter you know might find it useful.

Most of these modifications are simple and practical – and all are designed to help save a life. ((Plus, I am a fan of customization.))

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