Posted by
Fizzgig on September 11, 2009 |
One commentWell, I’ve rejigged my site theme, and I decided to play a bit with the layout.
The look of the site seemed to be better with just the excerpt from a single post on the front page.
Now, that sounds really straight forward and something that Wordpress should be able to do out of the box. And it is.
However, if you want the “Older Entries” pages to then show, say, 10 posts you’re knackered as all subsequent pages will just show 1 entry. I tried the Custom Post Limits plugin, but it still didn’t work as page 2 started at post 6.
After reading a lot of entries on this topic (it seems I’m not the only person keen on this!) and getting nowhere fast. Lots of “read this link then work it out yourself” type replies I finally got something to work. Using both the offset AND paging attributes of the query_posts() function!
The only issue with this is that the last page wouldn’t show at all. This was due to the fact that the front page misses all but 1 of the entries, then the 2nd page starts at entry 2. In effect you’re missing a number of entries up to the usual number per page minus 1 – everything that would be on the last page. To get round this, I simply double the number of entries displayed on what Wordpress believes is the final page.
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Posted by
Fizzgig on January 21, 2009 |
2 commentsWell, its been a while, but I thought I’d share this little snippet.
Theres a big hoo-ha going round at the minute about a number of viruses that are exploiting autorun.inf to spread.
You can read all the gorey details over at CERT “Microsoft Windows Does Not Disable AutoRun Properly”
Essentially, the recommended fix is to set a registry key. I did read somewhere that this makes windows handle the file as a Win95 ini file but sadly I can’t find the blog/article where I read that anymore.
Approaching this as a sysadmin and wanting to undertake minimal effort to resolve this issue I’ve create a Group Policy adm file to solve apply it to all the machines in an Active Directory domain. I’ve copied the contents below and attached the file to this post.
To use it:
- Create a new group policy object in your AD
- Edit it, right click on the Administrative Templates folder and remove all the default ones listed and add the one below.
- Right click on the Administrative Templates folder and change the view filtering to not hide settings that can’t be fully managed
- Group poicy editor will now display the setting to disable autorun which will set the appropriate registry key
ADM files are just text. You can either download the one below or copy and paste this (watch for the line wrap on the last line!):
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Posted by
Fizzgig on February 11, 2008 |
No commentsI’ve just started using a new (free) service called OpenDNS – http://www.opendns.com – at home and I’ve also set it up at work.
You need to know very little about How The Web Works™ to know that this can be a good thing.
DNS is where your computer takes a name like www.livejournal.com and turns it into a number that is used to route your computer to the right webserver.
OpenDNS doesn’t just give you the correct address for a website. It maintains a list of Phishing websites and redirects these to a safe page warning you about the site you were about to visit.
Of additional interest to me for its use at my work (and to parents who’s kids have access to the Internet) is that they don’t just categorise phishing websites, but they also have categories of adult and mature sites you can bar if you want (once you’ve signed up)
Took me a few minutes to setup (a little extra poking required at work, naturally). Very unintrusive – no software to install, just a couple of settings to change and they have lots of help pages on how to do that.
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Posted by
Fizzgig on September 18, 2007 |
71 commentsIn response to the amount of comments I’ve had (which are way way more than I was ever expecting!) on my Exchange Mailbox Recovery article, I’ve written a script to convert your guids from the bad format that exmerge gives you to the one thats required for updating the user account.
You can access it here. Please leave any feedback on this post.
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Posted by
Fizzgig on August 23, 2007 |
No commentsSo, I’ve been playing with Drupal recently.
At first it did my head in, but then something sorta clicked. Not been near the Taxonomy module yet, but when I do I expect that process to reverse.
Anyway, I decided I needed a module that will allow users to show their LastFM stuff on their profile pages. I couldn’t find one so I wrote one.
I stared out with the Onlinestatus module as it did something very similar to what I was hoping to achieve.
Anyway, the module is attached should you feel so inclined. (Requires the profiles module I think. The one I based it on does anyway, so it probably does too.)
Download: lastfm.tar.gz
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