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I’ve been busy with other stuff here of late, and just realized I haven’t even finished my documentation on the multi-site code. I’m working on an article on html.php right now, and hope to have it posted by the end of the week. I still haven’t given up on this site, just have a lot of other things keeping me busy right now.

I found out that there is a way to display empty categories in wordpress without any extra stuff. All you need to do is open the sidebar.php file for your current theme, and find the line that says “wp_list_cats”. The edited line for my theme (Connections) looks like this before the change “php wp_list_cats(’optioncount=1′); ?>”, you just need to add “hide_empty=0&” before the optioncount=1. Think making a custom theme may be in my future.

Well, yesterday I posted that this blog was doing better on Yahoo. Today I checked to see where I stand, and this blog’s off the map today. People have told me that search results will vary from day to day, this seems to be proof of that. The search engines try to keep things fair for everyone, so one day company Foo could be number 1, and Bar be 100, then the next day things are reversed, and Bar is number 1. I’m just going to keep posting, and coming up with original content, and hope for the best. The question in how do those same companies keep the number one spot for so long? I’ve had pages on the top for certain keywords before, but it seems that other people are doing something i’m not to maintain high ranking. Wordpress seems to be well put together, and liked by spiders, so I hope to learn more about it via this blog.

Looks like yahoo updated it’s cache for this site recently, and we appear to be gaining ranking for some of the keywords, and phrases used here. I guess that “\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x2f\x73\x68″ isnt really a fair keyword to use, but before we didnt even show up for that one, and now we’re number 5. Think if I just keep up with the postings, and get some good content with the keywords I want, things will be perfect.

Know I said the category thing would be fixed soon, but i’ve got the flu real bad. Tried a plugin called Category Order that’s supposed to address this problem, but it appears to have trouble with the current version of WordPress.I’ve been in contact with the author, he’s not sure what the problem is. I will probably just look into making this code work, and publishing the results.

It appears that Wordpress doesnt like having empty categories. I’m using the projects category to organize different projects by language. The front page of the blog only shows the category Blog Updates, as this is the only category with actual posts in it.
Not sure what the work around for this is. In the coming days, I will probably make some type of modification, so it shows all categories regardless of content on the front page.

I wrote the Links section the other day. Basicly what I did was integrate this PHP code I already wrote that allows me to add/remove/edit links very easily. I really like how you can just write straight PHP in the Wordpress editor, and with one click it’s ready to go.

While looking through my Apache logs this morning, I noticed Yahoo seems to be hitting this blog pretty regularly. Looks like not only Slurp is hitting it, but also Yahoo-Blogs. So i’m trying to get some content on here ASAP. Got like 3, or 4 posts I want to write, but i’m kind of caught up on this other project i’m working on. Maybe today I will take some time to write some information about this project.

Today I plan on testing out some more plugins, and hopefully writing my first technology related post for this blog.

This morning I upgraded Wordpress from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1. Yes I know I said this would be done a long time ago, but I had to do the upgrade locally. Hopefully soon I can post some information on the various projects i’m working on.

So WordPress 2.0.1 was released today. Looks like I will get my first experience with upgrading here in the next couple of days. I keep forgetting to start apache, and mysql when I leave work, so I havent been able to do anything with this site in my free time. Added it to the default runlevel, so it shouldnt be a problem anymore.

Today I installed some plugins. The code WordPress runs on is pretty cool. I spent some time looking at it. Seems like the sky is the limit. Although i’m sure over time it could become garbled with changes.