Comments on: On Wordpress http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/ Where Uzairs Roam Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:54:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Uzair http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/comment-page-1/#comment-2622 Uzair Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:54:18 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/#comment-2622 <p>Yeah, the Markdown/Smartypants plugin is actually pretty decent...and was working when I complained! The thing is that it's stricter about the syntax you use. So, for example, if you want a bulleted, list, you have to leave a blank line before you start each bullet with ' *'. The RoR version (the one bundled with Typo) doesn't have that requirement so I didn't realise what was going on right away.</p> <p>Now there's the minor problem of converting all my old posts (I'm a big bullet-point user). I think I did 20 posts or so and then gave up...might sit down some day and try hacking some SQL for it...</p> Yeah, the Markdown/Smartypants plugin is actually pretty decent…and was working when I complained! The thing is that it’s stricter about the syntax you use. So, for example, if you want a bulleted, list, you have to leave a blank line before you start each bullet with ‘ *’. The RoR version (the one bundled with Typo) doesn’t have that requirement so I didn’t realise what was going on right away.

Now there’s the minor problem of converting all my old posts (I’m a big bullet-point user). I think I did 20 posts or so and then gave up…might sit down some day and try hacking some SQL for it…

]]> By: eliott http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/comment-page-1/#comment-2188 eliott Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:03:29 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/#comment-2188 <p>There is a markdown and smartypants plugin for wordpress. I use it and it works great. I did turn off the ajaxy editor in wordpress, firstly because I didn't like it, and secondly..I read somewhere that it screws up markdown syntax by auto ending certain tags.</p> There is a markdown and smartypants plugin for wordpress. I use it and it works great.
I did turn off the ajaxy editor in wordpress, firstly because I didn’t like it, and secondly..I read somewhere that it screws up markdown syntax by auto ending certain tags.

]]> By: Uzair http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/comment-page-1/#comment-918 Uzair Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:49:30 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/#comment-918 <p>Grr, that's Internet Explorer being stupid. It shows up quite nicely in Firefox...</p> Grr, that’s Internet Explorer being stupid. It shows up quite nicely in Firefox…

]]> By: a. http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/comment-page-1/#comment-756 a. Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:35:17 +0000 http://uzair.nairang.org/articles/2006/09/23/quick-hits-post-wordpress-migration/#comment-756 <p>Hello - interesting new look! I could swear that the 'wallpaper' is the very same silk wallpaper that adorns the SCR at Pembroke! Very traditional design...I like it. The green bubbly thing at the top, I do not get. The fact that icons for comments and stuff seem to collide with the side margins, I find disturbing.</p> <p>I liked the bumper to bumper post, btw... nice to have an accepting and positive attitude/reaction to Islamabad's inevitable growth - and it <em>is</em> inevitable, I realised, why shouldn't it be...every city starts small and grows up and out...why not ours! That's a big step for my piddly comprehension as well as for Islamabad... but it doesn't erase the melancholy I will feel over my very green memories of the city in yesteryear.</p> Hello – interesting new look! I could swear that the ‘wallpaper’ is the very same silk wallpaper that adorns the SCR at Pembroke! Very traditional design…I like it. The green bubbly thing at the top, I do not get. The fact that icons for comments and stuff seem to collide with the side margins, I find disturbing.

I liked the bumper to bumper post, btw… nice to have an accepting and positive attitude/reaction to Islamabad’s inevitable growth – and it is inevitable, I realised, why shouldn’t it be…every city starts small and grows up and out…why not ours! That’s a big step for my piddly comprehension as well as for Islamabad… but it doesn’t erase the melancholy I will feel over my very green memories of the city in yesteryear.

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