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Merry Christmas ! is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

The answer is at the WordPress Support website.

Bottom line: it might be caused by the Google XML sitemaps module (great module to generate an XML sitemap) which can’t ping ask.com.

Solution : Stop pinging ask.com by going to options->XML-Sitemap and uncheck “Notify Ask.com”, “Update Options” and voilà.

WordPress : Error while auto-saving, saving, commenting is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

Till now all I can tell is that the admin interface has changed a bit. Oh and there is a system to upgrade plugins with one click, which is way cool. Otherwise pretty much the same good old WordPress.

The upgrade went smoothly, just as for any other previous release and everything seems to be running just fine. However, at the first glance, the blog seems a bit slower than before the upgrade … (maybe this is not related to the upgrade … I’ll have to check this out).

Edit : The slow feeling is away, so I guess it was something totally unrelated to the upgrade.

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

You must know those times when you have plenty of ideas to blog, and those times when you have no clue about what to post …

In WordPress, it is possible to write a post and have it appear on your blog at a later date. This can help you to have your posts being published regularly (even if, for example, you are on holidays).

To have a post being published at a later date, write it as usual, then check the “Edit timestamp” box and fill in the date you’d like the post to be published on.

Then click the Publish button.

That’s it !

By the way, I didn’t really write this post on the 2008-03-30

WordPress : Delayed posts is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

In no particular order !

1. Lifehacker : Software reviews, tips, and every hack you need to enhance your productivity
2. l’Oeil du web : (In French) Half technical, half fun blog of a friend who moved to the south of France
3. Aashiyana – Santanu and Pamela : Life, travels, civilization blog of a friend couple who moved back to India
4. Terminally Incoherent : Rants and comments, technical stuff, reviews
5. My SysAd Blog — UNIX : Tips about OpenSolaris
6. Get Rich Slowly : Financial tips for everyday life
7. Wise Bread : Financial tips, getting the most of your money
8. Ririan Project : Everyday life tips
9. OpenBSD Journal : Official news for the OpenBSD “free as air” Unix system.
10. OSNews : News about the world of operating systems

Hmm, that’s it for now ! This post to be a “thank you” for all the authors behind those blogs who write great posts and, well, ruin my productivity

What about you ? What are your favorite blogs or news sites ?

If you don’t own a blog you can list them in the comments below, but if you do have a blog, you might want to write such a post.

This a great way to share your favorite blogs with your readers and this helps those blogs to crawl their way up in page rank and to get a bit of well deserved fame

Speedlinking : A few blogs I am a fan of is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

I quite enjoy the result, and I learnt a bit about AdSense, SEO, CSS and WordPress on the way so all in all, I would say this was worth all the efforts and the time I’ve put in this.

Let me know what you think about the new theme, and if you see more ways to improve it !

Here are the most important things to remember.

AdSense

You can specify which sections are the most relevant to your page topic by placing them between <!– google_ad_section_start –> and <!– google_ad_section_end –>. You’ll typically want to place such banners around your post content, to make the advertisement specific to your post topic and to make them ignore whatever else is on your page (side bar, rss feeds you display, and so on).

Checkout AdSense help on this topic.

SEO

I’ve implemented a very simple SEO technics which consist in modifying the page title to make it as relevant as possible to the post content. The page title is a very important hint on the topic of the page for most of the search engines bots.

Here is an excellent explanation about dynamic titles.

CSS

If you specify a DIV as being “float”, then you must always specify the width of the DIV. Failing to do this, you might get unexpected results (like overlaping DIVs).

WordPress

The template hierarchy is such that if one file of the template is missing,it will often fall back on the index.php. For example, if you don’t need single post pages to be specially customized, you can simply delete the single.php file. Single post pages will then be rendered by the index.php file (provided that the index.php is able to perform the rendering of single post pages, of course).

See the reference about WordPress Template Hierarchy.

New theme up to speed ! is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

Feel free to have a look from time to time, to check for modifications !

For now, you’ll find :

• a book list
• a list of my most used Firefox plugins
• a list of y favorite free (like beer) softwares
• and my favorite wordpress plugins

And in case you wonder, those pages are generated thanks to the wonderful inlineRSS wordpress plugin, which makes pulling RSS feeds from your blog damn easy.

Collection pages is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

I live in France near Paris.
I work as a Systems Engineer and I am a computer hobbyist.

My main interests are around open source, operating systems (mostly Unix but Windows as well), coding (mostly in Perl these days), home automation, and many other things …

This site is a placeholder for things I learn/discover during my work or hobbies and I consider (hopefully) worth sharing.

Till soon !

SK

About is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog

My name is Stephane Kattoor, I work as an IT Engineer, and I created this blog with the idea to use it to store the little technical tips or hints I find in my every day work … with the hope it will help me and perhaps some others as well !

Come from time to time, I plan to keep it updated !

Stephane

First post ! is a post from: Tech@Sakana - A sysadmin's blog