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Broken navigation in WordPress .. and one way to fix it

After upgrading my sites to Wordpress 3.3, as well as updating a few themes, I noticed page navigation was broken in some of them. Namely, the base path was repeated in the URL. Instead of using a URL such as ‘/linfa/create/page/2′ for older… Read more

Admin toolbar missing in WordPress theme

Funny how you don’t notice something is missing until you actually need it. I realized today that the Wordpress admin toolbar was missing on one of my sites, after days working on it. Fortunately, the solution was simple in this case -… Read more

Fixing thumbnails in single posts of Aggregate Theme

There is a possible bug in the Aggregate Wordpress theme from Elegant Themes. Thumbnails are rendered differently from single posts pages and from blog style templates. Thumbnails in single posts are using the ‘thumb’ class, are missing the white… Read more

Adblocked

Note to self – when troubleshooting the display of AdSense ads on web pages, make sure AdBlock is not running in the browser… Read more

Query multiple tags with WordPress 3.2

A small clarification when it comes to querying Wordpress posts with multiple tags – tags in the URL are using Slugs …. not full values. If your query is missing items or is returning empty, make sure you are using the right value for your… Read more

Final word on MacPro crashes

No random crash since the replacement of my video card a few months ago. Based on past observations, here is what I believe happened : 1- For some reason, the external USB drive I was using for my monthly offline snapshot backup caused random… Read more

Things you cannot do with an iPad (yet ?)

Two months in with the iPad 2, it is growing on me but I am still on the fence on several points. Share with anything other than Facebook, Twitter and Email. I know there are other browsers, but I haven’t found a way to make them the default… Read more

Uninstall old applications

My Macbook was sluggish, freezing for about two second every few minutes or so. It was especially bad with streaming videos. Turns out fragments of an old application (Desktoptopia) were causing a timout every few minutes. CleanApp took care… Read more

Mac Pro overheating

Twice in the last two days, I found my desktop unresponsive. The second time also had the fans running wildly. So far, everything points to something causing the CPU to overheat. Coincidentally, I noticed the latest version of Chrome getting stuck… Read more

jQuery error in Internet Explorer

One cause of error at least. Watch for stray commas at the end of an array. For example : var array = ; That comma after ‘four’ will be silent in most browsers. In Internet Explorer (lower than 8 at least), this will throw an… Read more