I love using Del.icio.us because it’s sometimes unintuitive — a lot of the time. It’s like Myst where you have to solve puzzles to learn how some of its features work — the Experimental section.

When you first install WordPress, the opening page it displays is called the Dashboard. Unfortunately, this page is pretty useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, since it loads a bunch of RSS feeds from some seemingly random WordPress-power blogs (which can take quite a while). My original “fix” for this page was to never use it.

Fortunately, the folks over at the Simple Thoughts blog hacked a fix for the Dashboard. The fixed Dashboard is actually useful giving you a list of your draft posts, recent posts, number of post and comments and some other stuff.

You can read all about the Dashboard hack here. Once again, I’ve updated the WordPress Customization static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this hack.

You can now access a mobile-ready version the Zoinger blog here! In addition, WordPress now auto-detects various mobile browsers and automajically displays the mobile version for those browsers.

Enabling a mobile edition of WordPress is easy… all you have to do is install a plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition. After that, the plugin pretty much does the rest.

I did encountering a bug with the plugin when I initially installed it. It worked fine except it was bouncing mobile browsers up one level in the file structure, so I was getting a file not found error. That is, the plugin was sending mobile browsers to www.zoinger.com/wp-mobile.php instead of www.zoinger.com/words/wp-mobile.php. To fix this, I hacked this line in the wp-mobile.plugin.php file:

$URL = $siteurl.'wp-mobile.php?';

changed to

$URL = $siteurl.'../words/wp-mobile.php?';

I’ve updated the WordPress Customization static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this plugin.

Mo.bil.icio.us!