I love Textile. I love the simplicity of its markup. But I just can’t afford to use it in my web design anymore, not at the cost breaking absolutely everything just because it can’t play nice with other plugins.

Site Design Upgrade

Cool! After months of procrastination, I’ve finally updated my site’s theme to one compatible with the latest version of WordPress. I’ve dumped the old Hybrid theme and ported my design to a Twenty Twelve child theme — with some upgrades....

Server Changes

I finally retired my first domain name this past weekend. It was part of a necessary server change, and since open-dialogue.com hasn’t seen use in three or four years, I decided it was time to mothball it. I’m actually not too sorry to see it go. The focus...

Thesis vs. WordPress

There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is distributed. There was a large discussion yesterday over...

Closing Comments to Control Spam

About a week ago, I set WordPress to automatically close comments on posts over 90 days old on my Reclaimer website. Spam comments over there have become completely unreasonable lately, with Akismet catching and filtering out upwards of 300 spam a day. The vast...