I’m sorry if you are an English spoken reader but this post is published in Polish. The reason for that is it describes a problem with encoding of some Polish characters after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8, so a problem that only Poles should be interested in.
This blog is still supposed to be maintained in English so please do not get discouraged.
Dziś postanowiłem zrobić upgrade swojego fotobloga z Wordpress 2.6.1 na 2.8. Wszystko poszło sprawnie ale okazało się, że kodowanie polskich znaków totalnie się posypało – zamiast nich kwadraciki i krzaczki.
Pomimo mocnego zaplecza, przyznam, że zabawa z kodowaniem znaków totalnie mi nie odpowiada. Miałem już kiedyś problem z ukraińską stroną znimky.net, która stała się nieczytelna po zmianie MySQL z 4.0 na 4.1. Po długich bojach problem został rozwiązany poprzez dodanie poniższych 3 linii kodu PHP po ustnawieniu połączenia z bazą danych:
mysql_query("SET character_set_results=\"utf8\"");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES \"utf8\"");
Zacząłem szukać ale nie znalazłem zbyt wiele…
Continue reading ‘Upgrade do Wordpress 2.8 i problem z kodowaniem polskich znaków [PL]‘
Following my friend’s post I decided to change the plugin for highliting code snippets on this blog from Google Code Prettifier to Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress.
This tool is much better – now code looks more fancy and you can always show/copy to clipboard the very code (without additional characters that need removing). If you’re running a blog where you publish fragments of code – don’t wait and install this tool now!
The only problem that change introduced was I had to change all old posts so that code is picked up by this plugin. It took an hour but was worth it.
Since I received Nokia e51 I’ve been browsing web pages with Opera Mini. This is a decent browser which makes reading pages easier but it can’t do all. The best case is when not only the browser cares to display the page best it can, but also the owner of the page does so, i.e. only important content is downloaded so that the page is lighter and loads faster (which is important if you are not having a free WI-FI connection).
Continue reading ‘Adapt your blog for mobile devices’
I’ve just updated Wordpress engine to v2.5. I played with it for a moment and was very happy about it until I got this error when I went to Wordpress Dahsboard:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /XXX/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31
Luckily, I’ve found a very simple solution on Tom Raftery’s Social Media Blog. Tom, thanks for sharing with others!
I’ve just changed the engine for my blog from Wordpress 2.3 to Wordpress 2.5.
The change is not visible for the reader but there’s a lot going on in the dashboard, starting with the layout, dashboard widgets, multiple file upload, etc… To get the full list of the changes, please look at the official Wordpress blog.
What is feedmap? Let me cite its authors:
… feedmap is about mapping your blog! Using FeedMap you can tell the world where you are blogging from! Or you can simply search for bloggers right around where you live! Or even better let other local bloggers to discover your blog…
I had a look at this service and I must say its idea is very good. Really you can discover blogs of authors that live in the same town or are even your neighbours. And of course you can make your own blog more discoverable. However, I believe the authors need to improve some things (layout, minor issues and some more important stuff, like not working link). Anyway, great idea! I wish feedmap luck!
Of course I submitted this blog (info on feedmap), and my photoblog (info on feedmap).
Continue reading ‘FeedMap = Blogs + Maps’
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