Rails Controller Variables not Loading

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Don’t forget: “render :layout => …” should appear below any variables in your controller. I’ve spent a few hours trying to get the @variables set in my controller to show up in my layout. After much frustration and trying all kinds of fancy ways around my problem, it suddenly occurred to me that I was… Read more »

How I converted Mephisto to WordPress

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I got a comment the other day asking how I converted to WordPress from Mephisto while keeping my comments and everything intact. If you are familiar with Ruby on Rails, this response will make sense. If you are not, I recommend learning it…then this response will make sense. In a nutshell, I used Mephisto for… Read more »

Safari CSS Hack

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I just came across an article about how to write CSS only visible to Safari 3.0 and Opera 9. It saved my life so I thought I’d share the love! It was especially useful to me while trying to use ‘display: inline;’ to create a horizonal nav out of an unordered list <ul>. It turns… Read more »

WordPress pretty permalinks working on WestHost

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I had a hard time figuring out how to get the pretty url permalinks working for WordPress on WestHost, but I finally found the solution. It was weird at first because WordPress actually was writing to the .htaccess file correctly, but when I tried it out in a browser I was still getting 404’s. After… Read more »

My Blog is Now Running on WordPress

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Well, it’s my second migration. First I built this blog on my own using php. Then I decided to venture out and stop re-inventing the wheel and use a real blogging software tool. I chose Mephisto at the time (about a year ago), but I eventually regretted that and am now completely content with WordPress…. Read more »