Tongfamily Website

There is paradise on earth. In this case wordpress has a blogging client for iPhone. I can blog anywhere now
Just hope it doesn’t crash as much as twinkle does!
Hat tip to john Ludwig for this one.

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_Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_
The Forbidden Kingdom (功夫之王 gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung Fu’s King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (孙悟空 sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (西游记 xi1 you2 ji4，lit. western travel story). Made me really nostalgic for China. [...]

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I thought it was Scribefire, but it looks like WordPress has a configuration problem in displaying Chinese correctly. Apparently, with Fantastico there are two lines int he wp-config.php file for DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE that have to be removed. This seems to apply to WordPress 2.2 but my new WordPress 2.5 had this problem as well, [...]

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OK, finally flopped Nextgen Gallery for ZenPhoto even though I can’t get the widget to work. But, let’s try integration. First, you should see a Photos button now at the top. You do need a password to see anything though
But to get it to actually integrate into the blog is the trick. First [...]

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Quick review of widgets and WordPress. BTW, does anyone think the WordPress 2.5 is confusing compared with 2.3? sticking the really important plugins and settings to the right to be confusing and there are so many entries under Manage it makes no sense to me.
h2. Thumbs up:

WordPress Auto Update. Hey every program should have this. [...]

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Wow, this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/ is just so cool. Upgrades WordPress automatically. I had 2.3 and wanted to get to 2.5 and it just did it!

It also upgrades automatically the plug ins that I have. WordPress does use lots and lots of plugins so this is really convenient. Should really be a part of WordPress IMHO

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WordPress seems to hide old files of mine, so although I have my complete MovableType site, when I type for instance http://tongfamily.com/mt.index.php, even though the file is there, I get a 404 not found. This seems to a problem with rewrite rules as changing thename to mt.index.html lets you see the file fine.
In looking at [...]

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With a hoster that provides a nominal 1.5TB in storage, it sure is tempting to put some photos up. In experimenting, Nextgen Gallery seems popular with WordPress and it seems to work (unlike Gallery which doesn’t). Here are some photos. Main thing I haven’t figured out is how password protection works but I think you [...]

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Well, watch out for the WP Spam Free utility, in the latest release, it blew out my comments. I thought it was the main module, but whoami figured it out. The error said reenable cookies and by searching the text, he figure out what it was.

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I’ve told people that if they can, they should wait on buying a camcorder, the move to HD is happening in fits and starts with the usual teething problems. Right now, it looks like the third generation camcorders may finally get it right. There are two leading contenders:

Canon HF10 is the first camcorder with the [...]

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