Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • About 10 months ago I decided to scratch an itch. I was running 3 or 4 different WordPress websites, including this one. I was also playing around customizing these sites by creating some one-off plugins and child themes. At the time I was doing a lot of cowboy coding on my own domains. Mostly because…

  • Gaming during Vacation

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  • Sporting a New Look

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    So @tommcfarlin has finally made his Mayer theme available for WordPress.org sites. I’ve been following Tom’s progress with Mayer and I had to make it my first purchased WordPress theme. I really appreciate Tom’s (and WordPress’) core philosophy, “decisions, not options”. It allows for much more efficient code. I’m really looking forward to how Mayer…

  • Transferring IMAP Messages

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    Well I’m on to my final phase in transferring from my own server to @DreamHost. Actually, transferring mail and not loosing messages jacked up my anxiety level significantly. I’ve done a lot of testing and found that imapsync works great. After tweaking the command, I came up with the following. perl imapsync –host1 localhost –user1…

  • Add Custom Header Images

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    After using this plugin for quite a while I decided to refactor it and submit it to the WordPress Plugin repo. I figured maybe someone else might find it useful. What the plugin does is add all images that have been uploaded to a page titled The Headers to the header image array and allows…

  • Dreamhost, WordPress and WebDAV

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    So next on my list was figuring out how to create a nested group of password protected directories with different users accessing various sub-directories. It’s much simpler than it sounds. The only caveat was that the main domain is running WordPress. As such I had to tweak the .htaccess file. Fortunately the instructions were simple.…