Today I installed WPtouch plugin in my wordpress-based blog. It took no more than 5 minutes and voila! Your site will load perfectly in any mobile device! Awesome!
Permalinks in wordpress 2.8
Looking at my awstats graphs I found out that I had some not exepcted 404 pages (e.g. “/2008/12/programming-erlang/”). I checked it and it was obvious it was caused to the activation of Wordpress permalinks. After some investigation I realized the issues where caused by:
- missing .htaccess. Probably due to file permissions.
- Apache’s mod_rewrite module disabled.
- Apache’s Allow Override not enabled.
I guess I made all possible mistakes 
Moved blog to Slicehost
Bored with my ISP connection issues, finally I’ve moved my blog to Slicehost and got really surprised with the fast installation. Just one minute after the registration process I was accessing to my new baked Ubuntu virtual machine. One hour after, I had my blog migrated to Slicehost. Impressive!
wordpress widgets
Today I have been playing with wordpress widgets. My surprise was that I was unable to add third-party widgets such as now reading widget (I am using the wordpress blog service). Maybe I am not looking at the right place. So, for the moment, I will have to conform with default widgets like search, tag cloud, flickr, …
