Word Press and the Metal Tiger

For the past two days I have spent the majority of my time playing. That’s good you say. Yes, play is good; being productive is better. These two days were spent installing WordPress blogging software on a new server.

I wanted to find out more about WordPress and all of the stuff that goes with managing a PHP site. There has been a lot of things to learn and the going has been a little slow but I am glad to say that the new site http://metaltiger.org/blog is up with a basic layout. If you want to see what a really nice WordPress site looks like, take a look at Susan Kitchen’s 2020HindSight blog. Very clean and great content. I love her site and it’s powered by WordPress software. The WP software is open source and free too, how is that for a deal! The people that have developed WP and the support have really been terrific.

Enable Referrers

My first bit of confusion started when I tried to add a link. I received this notice that I must ‘Enable Referrers’ before the link would post. Enable Referrers? I scratched my head for a while on that one. After searching for a long time through all of the documentation in WordPress, I gave up and asked about it in one of the on line help support forums. It took a while before a kind response came that I did not know what I was doing and he supplied a link with a page on how to turn on Referrers in the browser. Great!

The trouble ended up being in my security software. Zone Alarm to the rescue. Sometimes we get locked up with security and loose the tools we need to do our work. Does this sound familiar? Eventually I opened up the security in Zone Alarm for my own site and presto changeo, the links now work. Thank you James Huff the wizard of web.

Bicycle Ride up to Claremont Ca

Other play today was conducted on the bicycle. The Velo Monrovia group did a 48 mile ride up through Claremont. All of the canyons are closed due to mud slides so we stuck to the foothills on the route. We ventured up Azusa canyon but one mile up the CHP officers had the barricades up and were turning people back. The heavy dump trucks and dirt/boulder movers were there in force. I think that it will be a while before all of these roads are open. Tomorrow is another day and I will get some more riding in. Good thing too. After three weeks of sitting on my rump watching the rain, I need a couple of good days riding just to clear away the cobwebs. Hopefully, I will be able to get some pictures of the snow on the local mountains during the ride tomorrow.