My name is John and I am a 27 year old systems administrator. I do web design. I like backpacking. I use WordPress. On this site I talk mostly about the things I like. This is a site about me.
I have several projects I maintain, when they are done, I usually replace them with other things to keep me busy. Currently I am working on taking WordPress Junkie live. Contact me if you would like to help.
I will be attending WordCamp Birmingham! I hope to meet with the others that are attending.
I have been using wordpress for a few years now. As some of you may know, I have been blogging for about 8 years and mostly do it for myself and friends.
I do operate a good handful of WordPress blogs, some of which are linked on my homepage johntracy.com, others are not linked for reasons of relationship, but nevertheless, I love wordpress.
I am still looking for a hotel right now, so if any of you are going and can recommend a decent hotel in the area that isn’t expensive, let me know.
I think registration is about to close, so if you are reading this and didn’t know, or just simply forgot, go to the site, spend $25, get a conference, tee-shirt, and lunch. Not bad!
I just realized I have started every single paragraph in this post with “I”. One day I will go back and learn some diversity in the English language. Else, I will have to learn how to not talk about me.
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and they have some nice feature improvements. One of the best features I see now while I am typing is an instant word count and the ability to restore different draft points. As I am writing this I know now that I have written 62 words on this post.
They also released a video explaining the new features…
I have just changed my commenting system over to disqus. I like the concept, you own your comments, no matter where you go, so both the website using disqus gets to keep track of the user and their comments, but can also follow that user and their comments on other sites. The commenter gets to see people who reply to their comments on various sites, but also gets to keep their identity across multiple sites they frequently comment.
Trying it out right now, but interested in what others have to say.
I have used several threaded comments plugins for wordpress over the years and the best one for the most part was called Brian’s Threaded Comments. There were issues with this plugin, it took lots of time to reconfigure the comments.php style to fit that of the theme your blog already has. Sometimes the javascript messed up.
I got rid of the nested comments because it was too much work to implement with my themes and other plugins that managed subscriptions to posts. I have finally found a solution that works.
WordPress Thread Comment is by far the best I have tried in recent history. You don’t have to edit your comment.php page. It inserts into the existing comment box and just uses text links to tell the comment box to act as a reply. In addition, it automagicly informs the person to whom you are replying of the new comment and does this without other plugins.
It is fairly customizable, you can edit how the page reacts, how many nests there are and also what the emails that are sent to other commenters look like. The English for the instructions and in the default settings is a little rough, so you will want to update that yourself, but this plugin will take you less than 5 minutes to install and test.
If you have been looking for something like this for WordPress, please give this a try, it saved me time, and it saved my sanity.
Just got done upgrading wordpress so I am posting this to make sure all of the belts have been checked the fluid levels are good.
Good voltage on the batteries, and it looks like the air filter is good too. Oil filter has been changed, and as a bonus, the air pressure in the tires has been checked and is good.
I have been using WordPress as my blog CMS for several years now. I love how far they have come with their product, and the community online for wordpress is amazing. Some of the best things about wordpress are the nearly infinite plugins and themes, and of course, their love for open source. So, why am I saying movable type 4 is a wordpress killer?
Let’s be honest, when you make titles that anger people, get on their nerves, or make them think twice about something, they are more likely to read. When I read that movable type 4 was coming out, I read the blog… Their product has been going downhill, or should I say, stalling since this new item was mentioned. Tons of people went to wordpress for their CMS, but before wordpress, movable type was the king of the game. If their coders are half as good as this press release, I will certainly be paying attention to the details of MT4.
Open ID, different types of page management, memcache, integrated user registration, and rich media. Almost all of these are available with wordpress. One big difference, all of these will be integrated with MT4. So the problem I have is, do I try out the MT4, or stay with WP? Of course I will try it out, but am I willing to switch back? If Brad Fitzpatrick is involved with MT4 as much as the press release is insinuating, (Open ID, memcache) I am willing to jump on board.
I am still in the midst of my overhaul to the site. Most of the items are working, the important stuff anyway. Feeds, posting, categories, comments, etc are all back up. There are some other things, mostly plugins, that are causing some trouble. The Contact page is still down, Tags are kind of working. Hopefully I will have all of that fixed today.
The look is much different than I had yesterday. I have moved into a more colorful, fun design. Rounded corners, bigger letters, tiny icons. The header graphic is the only piece of the design I really need more work with, but for now will do. I expect all of the changes to be done within a week, but sometimes things change and they could take longer.
I’m off to work on some PHP that isn’t working correctly… Crossing fingers.
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Let’s be honest, when you make titles that anger people, get on their nerves, or make them think twice about something, they are more likely to read. When I read that movable type 4 was coming out, 
