Archives for "September, 2009"

Posted by robhyland on 18th September 2009

Use WordPress as a CMS and Blog – The Best Way | BrianYerkes.com

I found these simple instructions on how to use WordPress as both a CMS and a blog. I don’t know that I would have figured this out on my own, so it was nice to have some help. Use WordPress as a CMS and Blog – The Best Way | BrianYerkes.com.

Posted by robhyland on 16th September 2009

Excluding Pages in WordPress

In one of the sites I help manage the content managers were interested in adding pages that would not show up in the navigation. I knew that this was possible by updating the call to the wp_list_pages function, but maintaining this would be too cumbersome for the average user, so I went in search of [...]

Posted by admin on 15th September 2009

WordPress as a CMS Videos

A coworker of mine recenly showed me screenr.com and I thought it would be a great way to expand my WordPress as a CMS instructions. Check out the following videos to see my mouse in action:

Posted by robhyland on 10th September 2009

cffile: copy vs upload

I spent about an hour debugging today because I couldn’t figure out where an uploaded file was going. It was disappearing when the <cffile action="upload"> tag was used. I eventually decided to try to just copy the file, using <cffile action="copy">, and it threw a permissions error. I am not sure why the other method [...]

Posted by robhyland on 9th September 2009

Visit from Terry Ryan

We had a nice visit today from Terry Ryan. He gave a brief overview of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder. I heard a lot about both products at cfunited and it was nice to hear more. I am excited about some of the new features they are rolling out and think I will use the Office integration [...]

Posted by robhyland on 6th September 2009

Craigslist

Here is an interesting article about Craigslist, in case you missed it – http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist?currentPage=all I am a regular user of Craigslist, especially the free section. I personally like their minimalist design and think that if it is not broken then there is no need to fix it.

Posted by robhyland on 4th September 2009

WordPress as a CMS

A while back I started looking for some info on WordPress as a CMS, and I couldn’t find anything too useful, so I made my own. It is pretty basic, and I am open to additions/suggestions/comments.