Oliver Hansen

I’ve been a bit bad about uploading photos lately and I’ll tell you why. After I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 I found I couldn’t upload anything while using Linux. I tried on my work laptop which runs Vista and it worked just fine so I used that for the photos of my mom’s fence. Now that I have a new job I don’t have a work laptop at the moment so that’s not possible.

Now I had read about issues with the new Wordpress 2.5 gallery upload feature that now uses Flash. Most of those issues seemed to be caused by permissions and plugins though; server-side issues. My problems are not at the server as a Windows based computer seems to work just fine. At home I am still running Linux Mint which I have run since about December. I updated to the latest Flash 10 build and I still had the same issue. (more…)

I always like to see where I am getting links from on the dashboard of my Wordpress admin page. After I upgraded from Wordpress 2.2 to 2.3 I noticed all of the links were from my own site! Well, it is true that some of my pages link to my own site and technically all of them do with the menu and header on every page but I obviously don’t care about that really. I want to see what other sites are linking to me.

A simple search found me the answer. Wordpress 2.2 was using Technorati to discover the links and Wordpress 2.3 uses Google. I found this advice helpful:

on lines 11 and 12 in index-extra.php to
“http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=”
and
“http://www.technorati.com/search/”

which I found on http://wordpress.org/support/topic/135548