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stop with the ‘hello dolly’

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:41:13 +0000

Stop with the Hello Dolly plugin

i love wordpress. it’s a great, flexible, easily customizable, often used and free CMS which started out as merely a blogging platform. I’ve used it for a long time (since v1.2 or something like that), i’ve seen it grow into the mecca of awesome that it has today. there are many benefits of wordpress that i enjoy greatly, including the automatic update from the admin panel, but the one thing that annoys the hells out of me is that stupid ‘hello dolly’ plugin. why must it be included with every update/upgrade? i’ve never used it, i never will. the first thing i have to do after an upgrade is to remove the stupid one-page plugin. it’s a waste. all i’m asking is that you don’t include it when you upgrade. keep it in the new installs, i have no problem with that. but if i don’t want it (which i very much do not), why do i have to keep deleting it from every site i update? if i wanted it, i wouldn’t have deleted it in the first place.

Please WordPress, stop including the ‘Hello Dolly’ plugin with system upgrades!

thank you.

Hello world… again?

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:14:52 +0000

you might say to yourself “self, what the??”

and it would only be appropriate for me to try to help you out. so here is my help:

it’s time for me to update the site. I’ve created two brand new WordPress websites for work (the UplandTales and LEP sites) and i started looking at my site some… i started this site a bunch of years ago and didn’t know jack about how WP works… well, i know more now and i realize i’ve not been using WP to it’s fullest – i’ve been doing a lot outside the box and it doesn’t need to be. i don’t have a design in place quite yet, so i’ll probably just keep the boring old WP standard theme in place until i get something put together (i have some ideas, but they’re still in my head). but i wanted to start putting the blocks in place to use WP as the CMS it’s become and not just a blogging tool as i was using it before.

i love the fluidity of the internets!

edit: i just uploaded and activated my old theme, which surprisingly, doesn’t break anything. w00t! so the site will continue to look like this with not much going on cept the blog, until i get a design/theme put together – so ‘more of the same’, anyone??

embedding a youtube video, issues

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:00:21 +0000

here’s yet another attempt to embed a youtube video…

when entering the following in the ‘code’ mode of posts:

the following would appear after the save:

however, this was before the upgrade – i recently upgraded wordpress and now i think it’ll actually work!!! (fingers crossed)

and apparently the stuff doesn’t work too well, cuz the code stuff i did put in, is not showing up as ‘code’… oh well. i’m now able to display youtube videos… you should all be 1) happy or 2) scared or 3) both.


regardless, the KITH skit above is a personal favorite of mine and i’m so glad i was able to find it… ahhh jacque and francqui, iz good to see you old friends.