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Need New WordPress Keys?

olivia — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:07:10 +0000

Did your site get hacked and you’re now in the process of changing passwords and securing your site? You’ll need a new set of secret keys:
WordPress Secret Key Generator?

More steps to take here,

and how to harden your WordPress installation.

Consider getting the Website Defender plugin.

WordPress HOW TO: Add Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons on index.php

olivia — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:44:24 +0000

You can find instructions everywhere on how to add these buttons to individual pages in WordPress, but when it comes to the index page (the main blog list page), just putting the code into the loop doesn’t work. You need to also specify the page URL for each post, or facebook will unhelpfully link to your main blog page every time. Here’s the code:

Sorry it spills out of the design, I just haven’t bothered to style this sort of code up yet. But you can still copy and paste it.

Facebook Like Button Code:


&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=80&action=like&font=lucida+grande&colorscheme=light" allowtransparency="true" style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden; width: 80px; height: 21px;" frameborder="0″ scrolling="no">
Facebook Share Button Code:

Variations of these work if you want to use one of the fancy buttons, just be sure to specify the permalink parameter each time.

Making It So

olivia — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:18:43 +0000

After over 5 years Yummy Wakame finally has a sleek new look! This has been a work-in-slow-progress for over a year now, as always with personal projects it’s been the last priority after paid work. At one point I thought it would never happen and didn’t touch it for about 4 months, figuring I’d work on it once work slowed down completely, but that never happened, and since October last year I suddenly found myself revelling in a whole lot more free time than I was used to. So YAY for Yummy Wakame! I guess now I’ll be passing around the business cards instead of cringingly giving out the URL to new clients. This design is a much better fit, inspired by something very meaningful to me. The portfolio isnt groaning under the weight of crusty 7 year old projects anymore. The new site and portfolio is so much easier to keep fresh thanks to WordPress, without needing to do a further stitch of code. I can make you a WordPress powered site too!

Oh and I’m working on the issue with the homepage taking a year to load. The hidden portfolio pieces are massive and unfortunately are loading before they are needed, so I still have to figure out how to load them on demand. Hopefully you all have broadband.

If anyone knows what that Kanji character is in the favicon you get +10hp!