Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Migrated to WordPress

I have finally managed to migrated to WordPress. Database statistics inform me that:

There are currently 1,884 posts and 479 comments, contained within 22 categories.

As of now I am still fixing minor glitches here and there, but major things work. Just to let you know what is broken:

  • Permanent links. They are not working yet at all. Fixed.
  • Old links. None of the old links are working. Partially fixed. All of them won’t work anyway. Let me know if you find anything that I missed.
  • Users. I haven’t created any except for amdin account and myself. Feel free to register though. Not a bug. My brother managed to register all by himself, thus there is no problem.
  • Thumbnails. Some pictures come out in their original size and thus really mess up the look and feel. I will attend to this problem shortly. Too much editing required. Only new posts will have proper thumbnailing. And those that I will fix manually. Please complain.
  • Google Ads. I don’t yet have it installed. I will fix the temlate very soon. Fixed. Google Ads will now appear only on full item pages. This should improve the click-through ratio due to better ad suggestions. Keep clicking.
  • Blogroll. WordPress has an excellent tool for maintaining a blogroll, but it is not very useful to me, since I have mine at BlogLines. I’ll fix the exporting script shotly. Fixed.

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Running multiple blogs with WordPress

WordPress is an excellent blogging tool. It has one shortcoming though. It does support multiple blogs setup within a single installation. Maybe there are some plugins to fix it, but I didn’t look for them yet. The situation is easy to control to a certain degree.

For one of my upcoming projects, I need to have two blogs – one in Russian language and another in English. They will have separate posts, separate comments, separate configurations, and even different design. But I want them to have the same users. Here is how I solved the problem:

  1. Extract latest.tar.gz into the /english/ directory for the first blog.
  2. Extract latest.tar.gz into the /russian/ directory for the second blog.
  3. Modify file /english/wp-config.php to have “wp_eng_” as table prefix.
  4. Modify file /russian/wp-config.php to have “wp_rus_” as table prefix.
  5. Install both instanses using the same database information (database name, username, password, and host).
  6. Modify file /russian/wp-settings.php to use a different table for user information. Change this line (approximately line number 43): 
    $wpdb->users            = $table_prefix . 'users';

    to look like:

    $wpdb->users            = 'wp_eng_' . 'users';
  7. Optionally, wp_rus_users table can be dropped from the database.

That’s all folks.

Photoblogging software

If you are looking for photoblogging software, make sure that you check the list at Photoblogs.org. There you will find all sorts of programs that are aimed at solving photoblogging needs. Some of those programs are regular blogs with imaging support, others – specialized software to do just that.