I have been in Round Table for a few years now, and really should have known better than to admit I worked in the computing industry – I got “volunteered” to manage the existing website. Me and my big mouth… But after a while I decided I would like to modernise the rather traditional and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Wordpress'
Community websites on the cheap
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Life
Tags: community·Flickr·GoogleApps·Roundtable·Twitter·websites·Wordpress
More on Google Maps in WordPress
July 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
A quick follow up on the post a couple of months ago about my quest to find a simple way of embedding Google Maps in WordPress blogs. Just to recap, the main issue I had was finding a way of embedding custom maps. While I still have yet to find a solution to self-hosted WordPress [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
Blog makeover
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Just a quick note to describe some recent changes to this site. I’ve changed the template from the attractive but not easily configurable “Feather” theme to Chris Pearson’s “Cutline 3 column” one. The initial advantage of this was it was easy to set up my own header images to be my own photos rather than [...]
Tags: Wordpress
Google maps in WordPress
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
I have been creating my own Google maps a lot recently, largely in support of an upcoming attempt at the 3 Peaks 24 hour challenge – hiking up the three highest mountains in the UK all in 24 hours. I’ve got various maps for the three hiking trails, plus a few put together to help [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
Formatting code in WordPress
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging
What a pain in the rear! WordPress appears nice as a blogging tool, but my attempts to format some code snippets was painful beyond belief. Every time I pasted some code in and surrounded it with the code tags, the generated HTML had extra paragraph markers and line breaks, and screwed up the position of [...]
Tags: programming·Wordpress