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I am working with American Micrographics, a digital imaging and record retention service here in Milwaukee. We are doing a website to showcase the capabilities of the company. It is a cool place because not only can they do all the current digital imaging techniques but they have bunch of legacy machines like aperture card readers and several types of microfilm machines that represent several decades of record retention and archiving services. Converting these legacy storage systems to the digital age is an interesting process.

The website is, of course, Wordpress driven and will ultimately include a custom skin and several plug-ins to add required functionality. At this point I am adding content and working on how the info flows. Skinning will be the final phase.

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I did a bunch of work to get the Schlick Cycles website for the Shark upgraded to a Wordpress powered deal, redid a bunch of content and finally got some photos up. More work on the theme and some graphics stuff to go but the main content is there.

We are expecting our debut in Playboy Magazine with the Shark in the September issue. Hope it makes the presses this time. Originally scheduled for May!

I’ve been using Flock on and off for a while and like many of the unique features for interacting with blogs, photo sites and the like but have not really made much use of its power yet. I’ve still been using Ecto to post to the blog most of the time and posting photos directly to Flickr from within Aperture via the Flickr Export plugin. still, the integrated nature of Flock has me intrigued so I’ll give it a go for a while.

Well, that was my Flock post only it wouldn’t post. The connection to the blog seemed OK but there seems to be an issue with getting the categories. I’ll be looking into it.

Meanwhile it is back to Ecto!

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I finally got around to making the leap, on this site, from 1.5.3 to 2.1.2. Pretty painless. My uber simple template seems to be working. I am, however, thinking of redoing it. Just need some time! I have been working on GAS Works Design and Midwest Aerial Photography and those gotta come first!

I recently built a Wordpress powered site for friends in Fort Collins, Colorado. Their business, Garden Thyme, is one of the premier landscape gardening companies in Northern Colorado. The need for a site that the two principle people in the company could update regularly led us to a Wordpress powered site. The new version 2.1 has some nice features that take the traditional blog style site and empower it to deliver a more business oriented need while still maintaining ease of use.

I also installed Gallery 2 and integrated it into the Wordpress template. Showing the quality of work is important to the folks at Garden Thyme and Gallery2 is another great program that is easy to use and, in this case, great because of the ease with which it can be integrated into the Wordpress site.

If you need landscaping in Fort Collins or Northern Colorado give Garden Thyme a look!

So, if this posts properly it will actually complete Phase Two because this is a test to see if Ecto is now able to post to the new site. Actually, new server, same site.

I this works I’ll move on to upgrading to 2.0.7 or whatever, or straight to 2.1 if I can. I need to look at the procedures. This blog is still running 1.5.3 so baby steps may be in order.

I did a fresh install of Wordpress 2.1 for http://www.mmsworks.com today. All went well and I like the new ability to select a “Page” to be the “Home” page. You then assign a different page to be the “Posts” page. Nice for this type of site.

I use Ecto to update my blogs and wanted it to manage posts on the new MMS Works site but initially it didn’t grab the categories and posts from Wordpress. It just hung up. Well, thanks to this post I now have Ecto working with the 2.1 install.

Seems a change to the xmlrpc.php file will fix it.

You must edit your xmlrpc.php. Find:

‘categoryId’ => $catid,

and change to:

‘categoryId’ => (string) $catid,

Also seems that this will be included in the next Wordpress update.

Now on to the fixing of the IE7 display issue!

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Mostly a security update. Nice to have such a dedicated dev team to keep up with these issues.

Check the latest WordPress release.

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No problems with the upgrade and things seem to be working fine so far. Took about 3 minutes.

There are over 170 bug fixes, new API hooks and functionality for Plug-in authors and a security upgrade that make this a recommended update for all WordPress users.

WordPress 1.5.1 page.

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