When converting my site to XHTML, the Wordpress plugin “WP GuestMap” posed another little obstacle. It is the plugin that I use on the “Visitors” page to display the world map with the hometowns of all visitors. Until now, I had implemented the map via IFrame. Although the plugin does offer a code snippet for XHTML-conform [...]

As a matter of fact, I don’t care two figs about all the Christmas coziness, warmth, cordiality, homelikeness, love and all that stuff. That’s why I hadn’t planned anything like a “Christmas post”. But yesterday, my mother reminded me of a beautiful poem which, due to its subject, suits Christmas time very well. So let [...]

When I wanted to convert my blog to XHTML (finally), I first started with the Transitional version. There was really only one reason for that: in XHTML Strict, the target attribute is not allowed. I don’t want to get involved in any discussions about whether or not a webmaster may infantilize the user by forcing new windows [...]

In the context of the XHTML-conform embedding of Google Maps, I encountered two problems (again): When I tried to insert the JavaScript with the CDATA section, Wordpress got under my feet with its usually so comfortable automatic formatting functions. The end marker /* ]]> */ suddenly became: /* ]]> */ A line in the file wp-includes/post-template.php is to blame [...]

Many Wordpress users wish to visually highlight their own responses between the comments on a post, so that you recognize at the first glance which comments come from the site operator and which ones from normal visitors. So do I. A Google search revealed that it is most often being recommended to simply compare the commentator’s [...]

I’m quite glad I can write this post, for it allows me to parenthetically intersperse the news that I did not deem worthy of an own post: I have spent the last three days making this site XHTML valid. First I had started with the Transitional version, because otherwise several things which I wanted to [...]

With the release of Wordpress 2.7 on 11th December, I was facing a problem: Manual plugin updates don’t seem to be provided for anymore. To date, I had always downloaded my plugins using the download link in the backend and then moved them to my server via FTP, because the automatic update had never worked for me – [...]

As almost every German WoW player should have noticed, the WoW database on buffed.de appears in a completely new design since the release of the addon “Wrath of the Lich King” on 13th November 2008. However, that also meant that my old (and grown on me!) Greasemonkey script didn’t work there anymore. Now I have finally found [...]

While I was scribblig my two posts yesterday, my eye suddenly got caught by the status bar of my Firefox. That is where the addon “Google PageRank Status“ is located, which shows you the current Google PageRank of the sites you are surfing to. In short, the PageRank is a value that indicates the popularity [...]