Cussedness
The natural cussedness of things in general.
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Cussedness Theme 1.0.1
As you probably haven’t noticed, because it looks almost the same as the old version, I’ve updated my Wordpress theme. It may just possibly be of interest to someone who wants to build their own theme but can’t be bothered to code it from scratch, as it has a simplified layout, minimal markup and styles, and should therefore be very easy to modify and add to. If you do make something from it, let me know, I’d be interested to see how it turns out.
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Securing MAMP
MAMP is a really easy way of running recent versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL on your Mac for development purposes, something that can take quite a lot of effort if you attempt to set things up on your own. There is one major drawback, however: the default install is really rather insecure, with Apache serving pages up to all and sundry, including the configuration sections of the install, meaning that anyone who happens to spot that port 80 is open can do things like drop databases at will, which would be somewhat irritating to say the least. This tutorial from Eric Keil covers some techniques for securing everything, but I went about it a little differently. (more…)
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Wordpress Dynamic Site URL Plugin
Behold! I just created my first Wordpress plugin: Dynamic Site URL.
Actually, strictly speaking, I didn’t write it, I just lifted it from this thread on wordpress.org and added one extra line to make it work on all parts of a Wordpress install. Hooray for this mysterious chap, who created the five lines of code that do the real work.
It’s useful if you want to run one blog under two domain names and have your links based on the currently active URL. (more…)
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New Theme
As you can see, I’ve made myself a Wordpress theme.
I built it from scratch, more or less, so it’s missing loads of crucial features. Because of this I’m not going to make it available for anyone else to use yet. Also, I am fully aware that it’s a bit boring. That’s intentional. I’m keeping it as simple as I can because most of the themes I’ve looked at are rather complicated, and full of features that tend to get in the way more than they help anyone. And I like boring, boring is readable.
I shall keep adding things as ideas occur to me, though, so I’m sure it’ll develop into an illegible mess in no time.