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You may have noticed some unexpected entries in the RSS feed if you are subscribed to my blog’s feed. As you might have already noticed, I have been making changes in the structure of the blog. I have been trying to turn the blog into more of a personal web site managed by Wordpress. I am feeling like the structure and design is complete and I am slowly filling in the content.

I started filling in the Publications page. I structured it so that posts that I categorize as “Publications” are shown on that page rather than the main blog page. I managed to do that but forgot about the RSS feed. For this reason, yesterday some publication posts appeared in the RSS feed. Tonight, I searched for a way to exclude a category from the RSS and came across a solution in the Wordpress support pages. If you ever need to exclude a category from the RSS feed of your Wordpress blog, you can add the following code into your wp-rss2.php file:

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Update: Move is complete. It went pretty well. The blog should be functioning as I used to be now.

I am going to be moving the website within my host. For this reason, the blog may not be accessible starting sometime tonight. I am hoping to be back up on Monday or Tuesday if all goes well. You won’t need to be changing anything when it comes back up. Wish me luck!

[tags]housekeeping [/tags]

You may have noticed that there has been an inconsistency with the design of my blog. I know it is not very good to have constantly changing website design but I am experimenting with different templates at the moment. I thought I was very happy with the last design but I noticed today that it looked awful in IE. So, I changed to a more simplistic template. I like it but not completely satisfied with it. Nevertheless, since I do not have time to make changes and look for new themes, I will stick with this one for a while. Also, the Amazon links were creating problems in IE as well and I opted to take them off for a while.

My ultimate goal is to redesign the site and have a complete site with different sections and the blog. As soon as I am done with my area paper defense, I will start working on a design which will make my online presence more complete.

[tags]housekeeping[/tags]

There is currently a problem with the Feedburner feed. I think I messed something up while playing with the Feedburner plugin. I didn’t have any problems with it before but I tried to disable it suspecting it was the reason that Technorati was not indexing my blog. I hope my feed will be fixed soon.

EDIT: It is fixed now.

[tags] blog related, feedburner [/tags]

Yesteday there was an unexpected problem with the database that this blog uses and access to the site was impossible. I gt to fix it late at night thanks to my database backup from last week or so. However, I still lost some recent comments. I apologize from people who got into the conversation here. Comments are valuable to me and I am sad they had to disappear.

As I had to fix stuff, I went ahead and upgraded Wordpress to the recent stable release and changed the theme. The theme may not be the ultimate you will see for some time but it gave me a chance to play with the Sidebar Widgets plugin. I will keep changing the theme or the K2 styles I use frequently. So, don’t be surprised to see different layouts in your visits. That is, if anyone is frequently stopping at the site

[tags]maintanence, wordpress[/tags]

I forgot to mention (you must have noticed though) that I changed my wordpress template to K2.

This is a temporary change actually. I have more ideas about the site design. I wanted to have a more professional website besides my blog which will feature my research projects, publications, etc. for some time now. I don’t think I will have the time to do that myself. I am on the look out for a website design that I could use. I honestly don’t know when this will happen though.