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!@#&* WordPress

Jul 7th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Well I performed the upgrade for WordPress 3.2 on my blog today and things went very smooth.  So smooth I was thinking I was on par with Matt Wiebe.  Then reality hit when I hit “upgrade” on Wendy’s weblog and the whole thing died.  I restored her database from a backup and slowly brought it [...]

wendycooper.org

Jul 2nd, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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After deciding she wasn’t fond of the ads on WordPress.com and $30 seemed a little steep to go ad-free when she can get free hosting with my account, Wendy decided to purchase www.wendycooper.org and migrate her blog to her own install of WordPress.  That was the easy part.  The hard part was picking out a [...]

A place to call home

Sep 19th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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When I started to work at the Salvation Army, I was pretty sure that there was a legion of bureaucrats in a bunker deep beneath the Ministry of Social Services headquarters in Regina trying to figure out a way to end homelessness.  After all, the NDP were in power and that seemed to be the [...]

Resonate 3.0 (beta)

Dec 1st, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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Well Resonate is back online with a new look and feel and the website is now powered by WordPress.  You can check out what Resonate is up to as a community, find out information about church planting, and also a listing of some of the emerging churches across the country.  The RSS feed and Twitter [...]

Comment Moderation

Oct 17th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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First of all, I am really thankful for the kind comments and prayers that you have left regarding Oliver.  It means a lot to Wendy, Mark and I.  Since I have moved to WordPress from Blogger, I have used Akismet to combat Trackback and comment spam which has caught 55,253 pieces of comment spam at [...]

New Design

Jan 25th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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I took some time yesterday to keep tweaking the site and the design to make it a little more personal. The header images are all my photos and over the next couple of weeks I will be adding some more to the rotation.  I haven’t decided to keep them rotating or change them up monthly [...]

Busted plug-in

Jan 17th, 2009
by Jordon.
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My blog isn’t working that well right now.  I assume it is a misbehaving caching plug-in.  Practically it means that my homepage isn’t updating right as well.  Comments aren’t working either which seems to be an overly aggressive Akismet plug-in which giving me a lot of false positives, even for long time commenter’s.   Even if [...]

Tweaking the Site

Jan 2nd, 2009
by Jordon.
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I am on partial vacation this week and have had some time to tweak the site a bit.  The big difference is you can see an ugly photo of my that is about five years old (I really need a new one taken) and I have added some icons to my other places that I [...]

The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

Dec 27th, 2008
by Jordon.
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Over the years I have become a big fan of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and what Jay Schafer is doing there.  Not only does Tumbleweed design great homes, I have really come to appreciate their website.  It is an excellent design with a great CMS and uses web services like Flickr really effectively.  I [...]

Content Moderation

Dec 16th, 2008
by Jordon.
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Wendy has a post explaining why she moderates her comments.  I have a similar set up here at jordoncooper.com and while it helps with the spam, this blog also gets hit with hateful comments about Wendy so I moderate here as well.  Now you know.

RSS Feed Fixed

Jul 31st, 2008
by Jordon.
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Sorry about the lack of updates since I upgraded to WordPress.  I had a mistake with my Feedburner settings that I missed.  All is working now and everyone should see current updates from the site.  You can still follow the site at feeds.feedburner.com/jordoncooper

My Flirtation with WordPress

Jul 23rd, 2007
by Jordon.
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The other night I deleted all of my posts out of jordoncooper.com and decided to install the latest version of WordPress here. It took about 20 minutes to import all of my posts and comments back into WordPress (8000 posts, 2500 comments) and then I decided to install some WordPress themes to see which ones [...]