Richard's Tech Reviews

Viewing posts by date modified within Wordpress

If you use Wordpress dot com, it doesn't provide any way in the classic posts interface to view by date modified.  You can only sort by date posted, ascending or descending.

There is an easy fix by editing the URL. The end of the view by date descending URL is

/wp-admin/edit.php?orderby=date&order=desc

To make sort it by date modified descending, just change the orderby parameter to "modified":

/wp-admin/edit.php?orderby=modified&order=desc

 

NOTE: It's a manual fix, you'll have to make the URL edit every time you want this view.

Thanks to NameHero - How To Sort Posts By The “Last Modified” Date for this easy fix.

great overview of geocoding photos on a Mac

Bruce McKenzie has published a very detailed and well-explained blog posting on all of the issues around software and hardware for Mac photo geocoding:

An ABC of geotagging photos on the Mac

It's a complex area and he's done a great job of researching the different aspects and presenting a clear overview.

meta: Mac Firefox issues

I'm experiencing a freeze when I load this entire blog (the main front page) in Mac Firefox, I apologise if this is affecting you.  I'm trying to troubleshoot it now.  It doesn't affect other browsers or platforms, Windows Firefox is fine.  It also doesn't show up on individual postings, only when loading the entire front page.  Please contact me ( ) if you're having this problem loading the blog.

UPDATE: It looks like it was the sheer amount of information on the page (with many images and bits of JavaScript) that was hitting a bug in the Mac Firefox page parser.  I have reduced the number of posts per page from 10 to 5 on both recent posts and archive pages.  This seems to have fixed the problem.