It turns out to be extremely easy to teach WordPress how to handle more than just blog posts and pages. In this post, I’m going to describe how I converted my hand-coded, static portfolio/CV home page into a WordPress page powered by custom post types. This isn’t a full step-by-step tutorial but rather a medium-level overview [...]

Uploading media to WordPress using the built-in Flash uploader has been broken on Ubuntu for a long time (Karmic 9.10 + Flash 10.0 r42). The problem seems to be in Flash itself since I can upload fine to the same blog from a Windows machine. But I just installed the Flash Plugin 10.1 beta 2 and [...]

I’ve been noticing lately that embedded video wasn’t showing up in my feeds in Google Reader. The video displays on the blog itself, it’s in the RSS, and Feedburner displays it in their feed preview. But Reader ignores it. And then I remembered that this problem started when I upgraded to WordPress 2.7. After a [...]