Archive for June, 2008

Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot buttons for WordPress

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Sociable is one of those plugins that makes WordPress such a joy to use. Super easy to install, just download, copy and unpack the archive. Setup from the WordPress Admin panel. This is what really floats my boat about some of the WordPress contributions - they're beautiful! The author could ...

Streamyx SMTP server authentication problem

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The SMTP AUTH settings in this post have been updated in a later article. It has been a busy few days. I'd noticed a couple of funny messages in the maillog generated by our sendmail daemon, but put them to the back of my mind. Here's an example: Jun 10 00:29:16 box0043 ...

Google AdSense on WordPress

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I'm enjoying using WordPress - some things have just been designed very well. I searched for advice on getting AdSense advertisements on my blog, and ended up installing a couple of different AdSense plugins that were ... okay, but seemed a bit overkill for what I want. It's actually very ...

Google AdSense up again

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

I posted an article about a surprise 'unavailable' message I got last time I visited Google AdSense. That sort of article really deserves a follow-up, so I checked online and found a useful post at the Digital Point forum that refers to AdSense's own blog at BlogSpot. There you can read ...

WordPress Permalink problem

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Perhaps like me you're new to WordPress, and perhaps like me you thought permalinks are a good idea. Perhaps, like me, you changed your settings so that your blog articles which once were: http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/?p=9 could look like this: http://blog.lolyco.com/sean/2008/06/08/google-adsense-down/ So you chose your pretty permalink option (there are many other ways of beautifying your ...