Michael S. Clark

I was looking for a way to use WordPress permalinks under IIS6 without having to use a custom 404 handler, and after some searching, I came across this: This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly. Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting [...]

I’ve joined Twitter and add a feed widget.

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress. Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range. That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work). Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any [...]

I’ve added PicLens support to all of my galleries. The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images. I’ve zipped up the code here.

I recently signed up for Google Analytics and added my sites and the sites created and hosted by the company I work for. The WordPress plugin I chose is this one by Semiologic. A very valuable tool if you’re interested in site usage statistics.

I spotted Gary’s post about the next beta release of Windows Live Writer and thought I’d give it a try, since the other one worked well. Upon launch, it detected all of my previous settings so I went to edit the settings for each of my blogs. I clicked Weblog -> Edit Weblog Settings… -> [...]

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.0 “Duke”, and I must say the upgrade was beautiful – 0 glitches, 0 downtime – excellent work guys!

I got it from SquidFingers.

(to the tune of Stop the Pigeon!) I’ve been getting increasing pissed off about the level of spam comments this blog has been attracting recently, so I decided to take some action. I searched on Google for WordPress spam, and the first result to come back was this one. After reading the recommendations the author [...]