Unsatisfied with the previous 7 Unicode Transformation Formats, I recently converted the database to UTF-8. Before I get into the gory details, here’s all you need to know:
Back up your database, install this plugin, read the instructions, and follow the instructions. Everything will be done with the push of one button. There [...]
Google already knows a lot about you and your website. Why not help them take the last remaining fragments of your soul, in return for better search results and tracking? Here are 3 simple tools that let you improve your website from behind the scenes.
Even though the site was sending requests out correctly, it was odd how trackbacks never ever showed up in the comments section. Well, I finally found the solution:
I have added this to my .htaccess file:
<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>
At first I thought trackbacks were sorta useless, because I can see incoming links on my dashboard. [...]
Just a while back, commenter David asked about if Sea Slugs! Anime Blog would ever feature full RSS feeds and images. My response was rather dismal:
In the near future, I would have to say no. I’m open to change, but right now I think it makes it way too easy for feed scrapers [...]
Jeez, this upgrade from 2.1.3 to 2.2.2 is not going smoothly. If anyone else has the Dashboard problem I had, here’s the solution:
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:
Create a text file on your desktop:
Put the following inside it:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>
Save the file.
Upload the file to your wp-admin directory.
Rename the [...]
I had read about redirecting RSS feeds through Feedburner recently, and I was intrigued. Although I would prefer it if Wordpress had a way to track your stats without a third party (I believe Wordpress.com blogs now do), Feedburner claims to give a lot of information about how your RSS feeds are used.
I love me some episodic anime blogging, and I stand fast defending the benefits of a comprehensive or (going the other way) concise summary to go with it. Sure, the readers that see that post when it’s fresh off the Write Post page will likely skip your summary and render your hard work useless, [...]
It’s so strange to me that Sea Slugs! is one of the older anime blogs out there, seeing as it seems like just yesterday we were amalgamating posts on Blogger and begging Jeff Lawson for a link on his original anime blog. While it’s not like I’ve been around the scene forever or anything, [...]
So I was reading some of the articles in the WP Dashboard Feed (you know, the sucky ones that cause the Dashboard to take about 5 minutes to load), and I came across a great article about some general tips for successful blogging. I understand that this may be excruciatingly boring to some, so [...]
I usually try to use the <!–more–> tag before spoilers, but sometimes that breaks things up in unnecessary ways. Thanks to Hung, Sea Slugs! is now using a plugin that allows for simpler spoiler-hiding. I did a few experiments, and I believe it does work in comments. So please enclose serious spoilers [...]
I’ve been noticing that whenever anime bloggers take a break for a while, it’s really hard to get back into the groove because it takes so darn long to write up a post. Since just watching the episode takes almost 30 minutes, posting up something about an episode can take a long time. [...]
