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Continue reading →: Comment Spam
Well, this affliction is terrible. Even in the last two days, I’ve had one good comment and the spammers found the new WordPress blog and started spamming it. WordPress like MovableType doesn’t have much protection. Here is what I did and you should too: # Registration. Require user registration before…
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Continue reading →: WordPress Widgets and Archives
OK, unlike MovableType, WordPress doesn’t automatically generate an archive.php (which is a list of all your posts), so for default templates, you get a 404 page not found error. To fix this isn’t easy to figure out, but essentially, go to Write/Write Page and make sure to name the “page”…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the new tongfamily.com!
Well, the switch is finally done. I got mainly held up on the WordPress strange rewrite difference from MovableType. If you want to see the old site, it currently lives at “richtong.org”:http://richtong.org, but eventually, I’ll just put all the old files into “old.tongfamily.com”:http://old.tongfamily.com
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Continue reading →: Becareful WordPress automatically rewrites domain URLs
So this is all a bit tricky particularly if you want to keep everything running. Here are the weird things you need to remember when transitioning. Some are DNS peculiarities, others are WordPress peculiarities, the biggest one being that WordPress unlike MovableType controls the URL rewriting, so even if you…
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Continue reading →: Clearing Mac DNS Cache
I’m in the middle of switching hosting providers. One problem is that when you do this and your host changes, you have to clear your DNS Cache (this is what maps names like tongfamily.com to IP address like 69.206.2.3). On Windows, there is a command line, _ipconfig /flush_ that you…
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Continue reading →: Two best iPhone application out there
I completely toasted my iPhone the other day, so I had to do a complete rebuild. This has gotten way easier, here is all you have to do: # Turn on iTunes, plug in your iPhone and install the latest 1.1.4 release (no more painful going up and down) #…
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Continue reading →: About
This is Rich’s fine and wonderful creation. An amazing 14 year old history for this blog that started first with FrontPage and its simple extensions in 1996, that then became a MovableType blog in 2002 (one of the first!) and now in 2008 has become a WordPress blog with Gallery…
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Continue reading →: Wyclef Jean and Keep Holding On
OMG, I just love “Sweetest Girl”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Vol._II:_Memoirs_of_an_Immigrant by Wyclef Jean. it is terrific Hip Hop for those of you who like that kind of stuff. Check out the “video”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=7PxBGHjABnU I’m also listening to “Avril Lavigne’s”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Lavigne “Keep Holding On”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Holding_On
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