WordPress famously promises a “5-minute install”. If you’ve tried to install it on your local Mac, you might give up around minute 9.
This is a Step-By-Step guide to installing and configuring WordPress 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Having a local WordPress installation will greatly speed up your development time. It’s definitely worth setting up — the problem is that I haven’t found a single resource that tells you how to do it. I intend to fix that.
If you’ve installed WordPress on OS X and receiving the error:
"somefile.jpg" has failed to upload due to an error
“somefile.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
The uploaded file could not be moved to /pathtouploadsfolder/
Then the following fix might help.
I had an amazing opportunity this Monday to photograph the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America (Granite Falls, WA), the North America Branch of one of Japan’s oldest and most prestigious shrines. Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America offers training in Aikido and I recently began practice.
About two years ago, I was working on a very large corporate website and elbow deep in Analytics. Several things perplexed me. One in particular has changed the way I think about websites.
“2 Top Menus? But… Why would you do that?”
I had an interesting challenge recently with one of my clients. They’ve been a start-up for years and just recently began sustaining operations with sales. This is a big stage for a start-up. Product is finally rolling out the door, after many years of expensive R&D supported by investors.
Their investors are still just as important, but they wanted to communicate to their customers that they’re all grown up. Their old website was a maze of investor-oriented fluff without a lot of substance. It was the kind of sandbox an investor could spend hours in and not complain.
The problem was, it was confusing as heck to customers.
Note: This post is originally from 4/9/2005. Due to it’s popularity, I’ve re-posted it, and added more photos from that fateful day.
I just a bought a new iMac a few weeks ago. Determined to improve my workflow as much as possible I decided to do something about an old annoyance.
As a web developer I have dozens of website living in my “Sites” folder on Mac OSX 10.6. Each time I wanted to access a website on “localhost” I had to open up my httpd.conf file and uncomment two lines related to the site I wanted to work on.
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This is okay, as long as you’re only working on one site at a time. But recently I found myself working on four sites at the same time. I needed a better solution.
So, I finally had a few spare hours to convert my website to WordPress. I was really looking forward to the challenge of getting everything just the way I had it — but WordPress powered.
My old website had a nifty slideshow gallery similar to the one on this new site. It looked like this:
Thermal Exposure before WordPress
The slideshow on the banner was integrated with Shadowbox.js, a great successor to the orginal Lightbox, which is no longer supported.
Fortunately, I found the Shadowbox.js WordPress plugin by Matt Martz. I just needed to find a flexible slideshow plugin. The best one to suit my needs was “Slideshow Galley” by Antonie Potgieter.
Unfortunately, the two didn’t play very nice together.
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