Noemi Millman: Triopter: Category Archives for "wordpress"

The sun finally came out today in Queens, and we have real spring weather! What better time to introduce Flowers, a spring-y floral Wordpress theme.

The Flowers theme is free to use and distribute, as long as you retain the design and photography credits in the footer. Please do not distribute any modifications to the design.

Flowers has been tested in Wordpress 2.3 and 2.5, and may also work with earlier versions. Please report any problems you run into in the comments on this post.

Download Flowers here.

One of my favorite WordPress plugins is WP-SlimStat, which allows you to track blog traffic in real time, and even if you don’t have access to raw log files and a log analysis software package.

Now, although SlimStat installed and ran without a hiccup on a couple of other blogs I administer, when I tried to add it to Triopter, it completely borked my blog, aborting the rendering of any page after the first post heading and before the content. The SlimStat dashboard panel was also coming up empty.

A few other people on the author’s blog had reported …

I planned to document the process of setting up this site, so here’s the first installment.

Wordpress’s famous “five-minute installation” is great. In fact, a lot of web hosts even have a “one-click” installation process available that takes even less time and doesn’t even require you to find out things like your database login.

And a default Wordpress installation is very useful, and very close to ready to use. Its defaults for posting, commenting, and everything are very useful.

But there are always a few things I like to change. There are the obvious, such as setting up a tagline, …