{"id":353,"date":"2008-05-10T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-05-11T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T21:50:48","slug":"wordpress-quirks-and-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/wordpress-quirks-and-edits\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress quirks and edits"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no secret I’ve had my share<\/a> of gripes<\/a> with WordPress<\/a> and here comes two more:<\/p>\n

I can’t upload images at the moment! I run the “plain” wordpress package in Debian testing and when I try to upload an image using the fancy new ajax way in 2.5, it just sits there for a while and it seems it receives the file but I don’t get the UI up that I believe I should get when the upload is completed… so I can’t confirm the upload etc so it instead it gets discarded!<\/p>\n

I’m suffering a bit from trackback spam so I installed a plugin named Trackback Validator<\/a> to help me reduce the manual work of denying them. It seems to work rather well so far in that I now no longer have to mark very many comments (trackbacks appear as comments within WordPress) at all, but the annoying part is that even though the validator unvalidates the trackbacks I still get information mails sent out to me about them! I’ve now also enabled the Akismet<\/a> plugin so let’s see what happens. Of course simply disabling trackbacks is an option that I’ll use if this doesn’t work good enough.<\/p>\n

A funny side-effect with installing and enabling Akismet was that all of a suddent I could access comments previously marked as spam, and thus I could undo the damages from my accidental mark-as-spam-hiccup<\/a> the other day!<\/p>\n

While playing around with plugins, I also installed a gravatar plugin<\/a> that shows gravatar-images for users on comments, and I installed a plugin that will automatically set my timezone<\/a> correctly even when DST changes – which WordPress can’t do by itself!<\/p>\n

Then all of a sudden when I poked around (too much) I managed to somehow ruin the background image I use a the top of all pages on my blog. Somewhat I got a gradient there instead, which indeed is what the theme supports (the theme I use is of course a standard one but I have done some minor edits of it). Took me a while to manage to get rid of the gradient and get back image back… I had to resort to editing the PHP file for the theme!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no secret I’ve had my share of gripes with WordPress and here comes two more: I can’t upload images at the moment! I run the “plain” wordpress package in Debian testing and when I try to upload an image using the fancy new ajax way in 2.5, it just sits there for a while … Continue reading WordPress quirks and edits<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[188,186,38,187,60],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-floss","tag-gravatar","tag-php","tag-spam","tag-time-zone","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}