I love using Del.icio.us because it’s sometimes unintuitive — a lot of the time. It’s like “Myst”:1 where you have to solve puzzles to learn how some of its features work — the “*Experimental*”:2 section.
[2(Del.icio.us Experimental screenshot)]/img/delicious_tag_bundles1.png
[1(Official Myst screenshot page)]http://www.riven.com/myst_screenshots.html
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”:1 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”:2. Once again, I’ve updated the “_WordPress Customization_”:3 static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this hack.
[1(Simple Thoughts blog homepage)]http://blog.taragana.com/
[3(Zoinger's WordPress Customization static page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wordpress-customization/
[2(Dashboard hack page)]http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-hack-how-to-trim-the-fat-resource-hogging-dashboard-in-admin/
You can now access a mobile-ready version the Zoinger blog “here”:2! 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”:1 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:
bq.. @$URL = $siteurl.’wp-mobile.php?’;@
changed to
@$URL = $siteurl.’../words/wp-mobile.php?’;@
p. I’ve updated the “_WordPress Customization_”:3 static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this plugin.
Mo.bil.icio.us!
[2(Mobile version of Zoinger blog)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wp-mobile.php
[1(WordPress mobile plugin)]http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/01/12/wordpress-mobile-edition-17/
[3(Zoinger's WordPress Customization static page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/wordpress-customization/