Thursday, January 19, 2012
It’s all go at the moment!
My little soccer team Darlington F.C. (The Mighty Darlo) DID actually go bust yesterday and I was about to head down to the Hangar Bar and turn my Darlington scarf upside down, but the fans gathered round the body and resuscitated it…
Darlington go bust and then revived after fans raise £200,000
The club have NO staff (not even players) - they were all made redundant by the Administrator but the backroom staff are all volunteering to help stage the two next home games, the coach is working for free, and what players are still around are going to play on a match-by-match basis. The fans are collecting money to pay their wages while our “Rescue Group” tries to thrash out some sort of community-led business plan. The coach, Crag Liddle, deserves an OBE or something - he’s really the Youth Team coach who’s been looking after the first team for the past few weeks, he’s Darlington through-and-through and a monument to all that is good and decent about the game. I think he’s been the glue which has kept us all together - even the players who had to leave (they had to earn a living) were gutted at abandoning ship and many ex-players have sent messages of support or even donated to the… [Read more...]
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Flatpress for Dummies
This article shows you how you can start your own blog in a matter of minutes using FlatPress.
Basic guide to getting started
What is FlatPress?
FlatPress is a great piece of software and I use it a lot to rapidly develop websites, just like this blog. Basically FlatPress is a content management system (you can either create and edit pages using the built-in web interface, or by using other methods) which doesn’t need a database so you can install it on most web servers which have PHP installed which covers the vast majority of web servers out there in internetland and some of them are completely free to use (as is FlatPress) so getting your own “home” on the web has never been easier.
How does it work
The name “FlatPress” is derived from the fact that it uses “flat files” (i.e. ordinary text files) in order to operate, in contrast to WordPress (one of the most popular blogging platforms in use today) which is powered by a database. Nothing wrong in either case - but flat files are easier for the layman to comprehend so it’s little wonder that a regular flow of new users… [Read more...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Using Windows Live Writer can screw up your blog’s news feed validation - here’s how to avoid it happening
Really, it can.
I posted this on the FlatPress forum, as that is the blogging software I use - but it most likely applies if you use Windows Live Writer to post to other blogging platforms too (e.g. Wordpress).
If you use Live Writer and the Remote Posting plugin to maintain your blog then (in Live Writer) you need to go into “Tools… Options… Editing” and UN-check all those boxes which say “Replace hyphens…”, “Replace straight quotes…” & “Replace other special characters” otherwise if you use any special characters in your post titles (e.g. three dots “…”) that will get converted to a special character and trip up your feed.
It just happened to me.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
FlatPress Captcha Plugin
Updated 17th June 2011 - now it should be case INsensitive. Thanks to pierovdfn at the FlatPress Forum
This is an experimental implementation of Zubrag’s Captcha as a FlatPress plugin.
Please disable the accessibleantispam plugin before trying this. Instructions are in the readme file in the plugin folder. [Read More…]
Saturday, May 8, 2010
How to setup FlatPress to accept autoposts from Posterous
Posting to your blog is now even easier than ever before thanks to Posterous. However, getting Posterous to talk to FlatPress involves a little work – though if you follow these instructions you can’t go far wrong. The only drawback to using this method of posting is that you can’t add categories. However you can use the service to post things quickly as you simply need to send your post as an e-mail to one easy to remember address – and Posterous will immediately post it to your own Posterous blog, as well as post it to as many different blogs which you might have set up, and this can include to services such as Facebook and Twitter.
1) Create a new text file with just the following in it, then save it as rsd.xml in your blog root
<rsd version=”1.0” xmlns=”http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd”>
<service>
<engineName>FlatPress</engineName>
<engineLink>http://www.flatpress.org/</engineLink>
<homePageLink>
http://www.<strong>YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME</strong>/<strong>FLATPRESS-BLOG-FOLDER</strong>/
</homePageLink>
<apis>
<api name=”MetaWeblog” preferred=”true”
apiLink=”http://www… [Read more...]
