Make Wordpress Grey To Mourn Quake Victims
May 20th, 2008
The following is the how-to, which is IE only.
Add the following corlored code to your theme’s header.php, right after <header>. Mine looks like this:
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11“>
<style>
html { filter:gray }
</style>
Or just filter:grey; to your body definition part in the style.css, which has no effect on the looking of the sidebar.
Update(May.22,2008): back to normal now. Thanks for your understanding and patience.
Comment Email Responder and iWPhone
February 17th, 2008
If you are looking for an WP plugin by which your reply to the comment on your blog will be automatically sent to the comment owner, you know, to keep you and your valuable reader connected, then Comment Email Responder is just for you.
Another is iWPhone, by which your wordpress blog will be more iphone-friendly. Here’s what my blog looks like. Nice, eh? Can’t wait to get it? ok, visit here for downloading and installation instructions.
Both free plugins work pretty well in my blog. I love them so much. And very appreciate the authors’ good work and love to give them a 
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OpenID Enabled
January 9th, 2008
I love OpenID, ‘coz i do think it’s the future of the mechanism of authentication and authorization. The more you learn about it, the cooler you will think it is. No wonder why so many big companies are chasing it now, including google,yahoo and microsoft.
And i’ve tried several times to make my site support OpenID by installing some found plugins. but all failed.
Until today i’ve figured it out finally. If your site is powered by the latest wordpress 2.3.2 and you wanna openid, here’s how:
1. install this plugin(by now, it’s version 2.1.2);
2. modify the \openid\Auth\Yadis\Yadis.php according to this comment. as said, remove the “=null” part. that is, from the italic one to the bold one:
function discover($uri, &$fetcher = null,
$extra_ns_map = null, $timeout = 20)
function discover($uri, &$fetcher,
$extra_ns_map, $timeout = 20)
3. now activate the plugin and enjoy.
You can just ignore the warning in the setting page of the plug if you still get it.
BTW, I use PHP 4.
And i encourage you to get your own openid from either myopenid.com as i did or any other providers listed here or spreadopenid. ‘Coz if you do and you wanna leave a comment here, your comment will be shown immediately and no awaiting needed as usual. At least as a piece of cake 
Update: It doesn’t work https so far. see my testing comment. If you know other openid plugins for wordpress, please share with me. Thanks.
Update(Jan.18,2008): Now yahoo has choosed to join openid too.
I’ve Got Friendly URLs Here!
December 23rd, 2007
I know it’s built-in feature in WP 2.3.1. However, due to i haven’t direct control on the server where my site is hosted in, this plan has to be postponed.
Until tonight i found this very valuable article. Exactly what i wannt: no loss to the traffic and smoothly upgrade to the more SEO-ed url pattern by redirecting.
Cool!
