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Displaying blog posts on a static page

blowuprobot — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:20:38 +0000

I <3 WordPress most of the time

(WordPress tech stuff)

Hooooooly shit all I wanted to do was make a splash page for a blog. More or less.

Making the front page a static page is very easy to do (Settings > Reading).

Making a page with all the blog posts (that used to be on the front page)…… is also pretty simple: you just have to cut & paste some code into a new (page template) blog.php file (which goes in your theme folder). Then you create a page in WordPress that uses the new template.

Copy the code here: Making your blog appear in a non-root folder

Grrr. I would have never searched for the title of that help article. It took hours to find it. I was looking for “Making a static link for blog posts” or “Displaying blog posts on a static page” or “Switching front page to static page” or “Querying for all blog posts” etc etc (I was trying to make a new page template that made a new WP_Query and displayed all the blog posts).

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How to delete an autocomplete url in Safari

blowuprobot — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:45:06 +0000

Autocomplete is convenient, but sometimes it remembers too much: typo’d urls, dead links, nsfw sites…

To get rid of the offending url:

Go to History > Show all history in the menu.
Find the url (there’s a search bar on the upper right if you need it).
Delete it.

To edit web form autofills, go to Safari > Preferences, and click on the “Autofill” tab.

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Test for pingback stats

blowuprobot — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:24:26 +0000

Don’t click on this link til the NYT article comes out, it’s a secret!

MCC

(does anyone know if the wordpress.com stats plugin shows results in real-time?)

ScribbleAS3_v2++

blowuprobot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:45:21 +0000

This is the original ScribbleAS3_VectorV2 (quite similar to ScribbleAS3, but less spotty) (click & drag, space to clear):

Which is cute, but what if you wanted to draw something like this!!!

Now you can! Click & drag. Space to start over. If you make anything neat, please take a screenshot & post a link the comments! Thx!

Floating columns

blowuprobot — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:28:07 +0000

I was trying to use CSS to make a 3 column layout, but the footer kept bouncing up. (Note: none of the heights are defined, because the content is dynamic.)

What one might expect to happen.

What really happens.

It didn’t make sense at first, but floating a div seems to set the height at 0. Which kind of makes sense. After lots of swearing, it turns out that the fix is pretty simple. You just have to add another div with clear set to “both” to stretch out the container div & give it a height.

Yay! (You can also put the footer in the main container, but I think this way is cleaner if you’re messing with lots of backgrounds etc.)

I still don’t understand why CSS sometimes makes the background disappear when different elements are nested w/different margin & padding settings.

ScribbleAS3++

blowuprobot — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:42:32 +0000

Don’t tell me this isn’t worth more than banner-ad-resizing skillz. YO. fkg. no no i really am working on something i swear, The Manhattan Cocktail Classic will be up, ALIVE, soon! and it’s got a swell little template that knows what categories posts are in and displays them in the right place — randomly and everything. i might even skip ahead in this gd book and read about hooking some Flash up to XML so the posts can fade in and out in the sidebar like good ads should.

I think it would be faster than trying to learn dHTML. Fkg DOM!

This little swf is a mashup of Example 26-6: ScribbleAS3 & Example 26-5: Using BitmapData.lock to improve performance (see previous post). It has 3 loops nested inside each other! I know! FANCY!!! CLICK AND DRAG! not too fast please. Press the spacebar to reset.

I know, there’s an abstract digital media artist inside of all of us!

Just a sample of what the improved ScribbleAS3 can do!

I think listening to Ida Maria for 5 hours straight is making me nuts.

LeSoNED: warming up really does help w/the running! esp if you’re not quite awake when you head out the door. the warmup that Runner’s World recommends for real runners is my entire run. so i did some jumping jacks and arm windmills.

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Why is Tumblring so Fun?

blowuprobot — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:18:23 +0000

It seems kind of unnecessary, like Twitter. And it’s more or less the same as the “WordPress This” bookmarklet… I should probably go outside more.

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