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I have just managed to come out of the other end of another WordPress minefield. WordPress 2.6 image captions. Being a natural healer, I am trained to search for the cause before embarking on a cure. I should have applied this rule to WordPress. Look around some of the recent posts, and you will see that the images now have a nice background and a caption underneath, and they are aligned in the post as I desire.

This is part of the new whiter than white twodotsix version of WP. However, it didn’t work out of the box, and I was too keen to mess around with the CSS to get it right, before realising it wasn’t that. How did I know? After a fair deal of frustration, I did a vanilla install of 2.6 with the theme I am using here, Simplr. Everything was fine. My upgrade hadn’t gone well. I removed completely the wp-includes and wp-admin folders and replaced them with fresh files. Better. I disabled all plugins. Perfect. I enabled them again one by one until I reached the culprit; wp-typography 1.6. I can live without the plugin, I guess it will get upgraded sometime soon. Until then, enjoy the captions, which I am using to credit the owners of the photographs I use!

With the release of WordPress 2.6, I noticed my lovely CoolWater theme wasn’t playing ball with the new captions for images. It was a case of tweaking the css file, and taking care of a workaround when the image gallery is reluctant to align images. If you notice any more problems, don’t hesitate to let me know. I for one won’t be rushing to upgrade all my blogs to 2.6 just yet.

CoolWater theme 1.01 | Demo | CoolWater Theme (3)

by John.Karakatsanis

I guess I must have owned about 10 domains at some stage in my life; .co.nz .net .com all for either business or pleasure. Currently I have two, maybe three -clarification later- domains. This article is about people who buy domains with the sole purpose of profiting from them by selling them to owners of similar domains, or by taking advantage of a technical error to renew someone else’s domain, then sell it back to them. Both of these ‘practises’ have happened to me.

I used to have a lovely domain name, mahita.net, it is based on the Maori word for sage, teacher. While I was running this domain for my teaching business, I moved flats. At the same time, I moved my cable service with me, and here began the problems. For a domain you have to provide an email address which is NOT the same as the domain, and NOT one of the many free services; hotmail, yahoo, etc. (more…)