Brain Assassin

Over the last few days I spent a lit­tle time on Word­Press, inter­est­ing plug-​​ins, and some set­tings. First of all, I improved your abil­ity to com­ment on my ram­blings. Now you have the power to con­ve­niently for­mat your text. In addi­tion, there’s a new option to keep you up to speed, if you decide to pro­duce some text. This option is dis­abled by default but you can turn it on by acti­vat­ing the check­box titled “Notify me of fol­lowup com­ments via e-​​mail”, which is located right under the text editor.

Next, I finally cus­tomized my 404 error page. The default page may be nice but I didn’t like it all that much. This isn’t a final ver­sion but it’s def­i­nitely bet­ter than its pre­de­ces­sor. In addi­tion, I fixed a few things which were bro­ken in IE. Nat­u­rally, this site is opti­mized for Fire­fox but the lay­out should now be the same on IE as well. If the site looks really messed up you can always fall back on Firefox.

Of course, I installed a few addi­tional plug-​​ins and opti­mized a few lines of code, even though PHP isn’t a script­ing lan­guage I’m very famil­iar with. Let’s just say that I removed a few unnec­es­sary PHP/​MySQL calls by hard­cod­ing a few things as out­lined in this excel­lent arti­cle over at Dig­ging into Word­Press. Any­way, the site loads a tad faster and surely is a bit more con­ve­nient to use than it was before. Finally, thanks to Reg­is­ter Plus you can reg­is­ter more eas­ily now. Read more…