Ola Lindberg

Oh! I just installed the brand new Wordpress 2.5 and it’s amazingly beautiful! The upgrade were really painless. Grab it yourself while it’s hot!

I did just an upgrade to Wordpress 2.3. Everything went (as usual) nice. All plugins worked out of the box. Lovely sweet!

Today I tried to embed a custom Google Map to my blog and ended up with a usable Wordpress editor! It didn’t even allow me to remove the iFrame -code.

Here is how I broke it:

1. Created a custom Google Maps -map
2. Copied the embed-map-html code (an iFrame) to the Code field in WP
3. Saved the post as a draft
4. Loaded my and when I saved the blog post as a draft and discovered that I couldn’t edit the post any more

To recover from this it would have been possible to discard the draft but since I had put some time in editing I didn’t want to do that. Instead I fired up my MySQL editor and tried to locate the html text in the database for manual removal. All of a sudden it struck me. The easy solution! The good solution! I disabled JavaScript in Firefox, loaded the web page and viola! I got the simple Wordpress text editor back and could remove the iFrame-code from Google Maps.

I have now attached a post-it with the text “Keep It Simple Stupid” on my monitor (again). Simon has got one as well.

I have just done the upgrade from WordPress 2.04 to WordPress 2.1 on this blog. I love to do these upgrades since that’s the only time I upgrade all plugins, themes etcetera!

The editor in WordPress 2.1 is beautiful! I LOVE that WordPress now includes spell checker and auto save of your posts as drafts!

Well, try it out!

At last! The new Manticore Skateboards web site is launched. I have been working on this for some weeks now and it feels great to remove it from my to-do list!

All content is created and will be administrated with the wonderful Wordpress software.