Author Archives: lgpiper

Ok, I know I said I was going to learn to theme from scratch. Then it didn’t happen. Now, it’s beginning to happen, only at another home. I started with DocsBlog. After I got a start, I moved on to … Continue reading →

I was originally planning on just modifying the css for whatever default theme that showed up. That ran me into some issues. One of which was that I stupidly just modified the “default” theme, and once I upgraded my installation, … Continue reading →

So, there seems to be some kind of horrible worm going around which attacks WP installations. Thus, I figured I should “upgrade” my WP installs to the latest and greatest. Having practiced migration of one WP install to a new … Continue reading →

I haven’t even fixed the things wrong on this site, and already I’m doing new things. At the moment, I’m in the process of learning to migrate this installation to a new location. The theory is that once I manage … Continue reading →

If you’re looking at this site on anything other than Opera, you’ll notice it looks funny as hell. That’s because I tried to fix the look of things, so as to make this WP install look more-or-less like other sites … Continue reading →

So, after lots of tribulations, I’ve finally managed to install caching for this WP installation.  The problem was that the site had virtually no content, but still behaved like a pig.  If you don’t believe me, look at the Monpage … Continue reading →

To my kids, I’m known as pop.  I blame it all on Jessica, whose favorite book at one time was Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss.  Anyway, I resisted the designation for quite some time, but have eventually embraced it.  … Continue reading →