Bug Fixed

Tim Hall — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:02:56 +0000

I’ve now fixed the bug on the Author page of this blog (Did any of you notice?), so it’s no longer giving a 404 error. It turned out that author names containing spaces didn’t work when the site was configured to use custom permalinks. After a bit of Googling, it turn out the fix is to update the table wp_users, changing the field user_nicename to get rid of the spaces (So it’s “Tim-Hall”, not “Tim Hall”).

For reasons best known to WordPress themselves, the user’s nicename isn’t editable though the WordPress control panel, so you have to update the database directly. I did it using phpMyAdmin which is available on my host.

Administrative Note

Tim Hall — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:56:51 +0000

As you might have noticed, I’m experimenting with putting Google Adsense ads on this blog. At the moment I’ve just stuck a single ad in the right-hand sidebar, where it’s visible but not over-intrusive. I’m going to experiment with different positioning, and will probably be installing a WordPress plugin that stops adverts appearing to people who have previously left comments on the site. That way it will serve up ads to people who randomly come in from Google searching for Swiss Kettles without annoying the site’s regular readers.

Since this is my own Adsense account, and I’ve therefore got some control over what categories of adverts get displayed, I’ve blocked some of the more annoying and sleazy stuff. So hopefully we won’t be seeing those awful belly fat or white teeth ads, which are actually for glorified Ponzi schemes anyway.

Let me know if you do see anything offensive, inappropriate or sleazy.

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Bug Fixed

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