Monthly Archives: August 2010

Testing the New Digg

To auto-submit my blog posts to the new digg I need to publish this key : a80eb0b39ad7421e8f52c699ec4a68b6

…so.. nothing to see here, move along please… :-)

WordPress Custom Query for Custom Post Types and Taxonomy

I wanted to run a custom query against WP3.0 custom post types but all the documentation and google I found all pointed to posts in categories which doesn’t work if your post type isn’t post, this was my solution….

$my_query = $wp_query->query; // Copy the existing query into a new one
$my_query['posts_per_page'] = "30"; // change the number we want displayed.
$my_query['orderby'] = "title"; // Sort by title.
$my_query['order'] = "ASC"; // 'A' first!
query_posts($my_query);  // Run our query.... normal service resumes.

Hopefully this post will give someone the light bulb moment they’re after.

3rd Generation iPod Shuffle Skipping

My daughters new iPod Shuffle was skipping tracks after only playing the first 5 to 20 seconds. After a load of googling and trial and error I worked out that my being cleaver approach of lowing the track bit rate to squeeze more tracks in was the mistake… you need to ensure that all files are at least 128k.