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Updated Blog

Grant — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:02:19 +0000

Upgraded or updated the backside of my blog. Nothing noticable on your end other than a couple of plugins to update.

I can now post and upload pics from my iPhone again. Yeah.

This is Cayden playing a concert for our cul-de-sac.

Test Driving My iPhone

Grant — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:27:51 +0000

I am writing this from my iPhone trying out the WordPress app. It really is a pain to type on the phone for a long blog but for a short one it would work.

Any one else out there blog from their phone?

New Plug-in For Facebook users of WordPress

Grant — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:20:27 +0000

Or WordPress users of Facebook…however you want to roll.

Here’s the plugin page: Status-Press Widget – this is the widget version.

This is the non-widget version.

I’m using the widget version over there on the right.

Basically it rips the status off an RSS feed from Facebook and let’s you display it on your website. Pretty cool, pretty amazing.

I didn’t have any problems installing it and using it. It did take me a while to figure out how to change the text size and margin on the widget. Here’s the simple version – look at the sidebar of Brian’s post on the widget and pay careful attention to the stylized format lines.

Then go here and use all the fun CSS you can imagine to make it look like you want.

Now I can annoy Amy in two places.

Cool New Feature

Grant — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:43:50 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out how in the world to get the comments from Facebook to my blog. Anytime I post something here – I’ve got it automatically going to Facebook.

Some of my friends comment on Facebook, some here. How to bring the two together?

This plugin by James Low. (In the process, James has a pretty cool little blog. Click over there and check it out.)

It’s running like a dream so far.

Almost Done With Blog

Grant — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:06:32 +0000

Miracles will never cease!!!

This was my list to get done on the blog and I honestly thought, it would take me the rest of my life.

1. recent comments with excerpt
2. on this day calendar
3. archive page
4. contact me page.
5. top posts by view
6. top commenters of all time
7. flickr rss feed fixed
8. rss feed comments
9. Header fixed – the G (graphic) sides
~~10. flickr pic uploader on writing post~~
11. Links/blogroll
~~12. punctutation/font thingy..~~
13. WYSWYG set up
14. There’ll be something else I’ll remember later.

So I’m way ahead of the game and normal blogging should resume by tomorrow.

One more nasty note. If you are trying to get to my site with FireFox3, you’ll get a nasty notice from Google saying my site was hijacked, attacked and pillaged. It was but it’s been clean for 10 days.

I’ve petitioned, called and bothered everyone I know to bother to get this thing removed. I’m still waiting. But – the site is all cleaned up now.