“Il Filosofo” is the web log of Austin Matzko. When medieval philosophers wrote of “The Philosopher,” everyone knew they meant Aristotle, so the domain name shows my desired profession (I’m studying for a PhD in philosophy), reveals my interest in Italy (I’m slowly learning Italian), and in acronym form ( “if” ) nods both to logic and to one of my other interests, programming.
I like to think of blogs as something like a cross between a diary, a commonplace book, and a travel journal. One of the best parts of a blog is that it allows feedback. I hope that my inchoate thoughts will be sharpened with thoughtful criticism in the comments. So please, let me know what you think, but also keep in mind that many times my ideas are not fully formed and so may not reflect my final opinion on issues. Likewise neither do any ideas expressed here represent the views of my friends, family, or past, present, or future employers.
My wife Melita, my son Samuel, my daughter Margaret, and I reside in Boston, where I work full-time as a web developer. Since the beginning of 2008 I’ve been blogging about WordPress at Pressed Words. Melita and I are members of the Evangelical Baptist Church.
You can contact me by sending an email to if.website (located at) gmail (dot) com .
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I was wondering if you could help me out.
I’m trying to display an “author information” section on my sidebar that displays information about whoever published the page. I’m using static pages, and not posts. My problem is I don’t want that section to be displayed when the author is me, or id 1. Could you help?
< ?php if (is_page() && get_author_ID($auth_ID) !=1) { ?>
Author Information
Try
get_the_author_ID()instead ofget_author_ID($auth_ID)which isn’t a WordPress function, as far as I know.Why are you posting this on my about page?
Buona fortuna per il tuo italiano
Just wanted to thank you for posting a link on the WordPress support forum regarding a simple, elegant “Comments in the Sidebar” plug-in. At your advice, I was up and running in about seven minutes. Thanks again!
Hello Austin,
I commented on the site of Skippy about the WP-Database backup plugin, but it seems that development is in your hands now? I can’t find any post about it on your site.
I’m using WordPress 2.0.1 right now with the included plugin and was downloading some backups when I noted some strange thing:
When I look at a backup send to me daily by Cron, the size is about 400kb, unpacked about 1500kb, which also include tables use by the gallery program Plogger.
When I make a backup using phpmyadmin I also get a (uncompressed) file of about 1500kb (they differ in how the backup file looks, but I guess that’s ok although the encoding is set to utf8 which I don’t use).
But, when I use the backup screen within WordPress and let the plugin create a backup for me which I then download, the packed size will also be about 400kb, but unpacked just around 500kb, so there is al lot which is missing.
So I have three sql files which I can open in say Wordpad, but the last file stops somewhere within a ‘post’ so the backup seems to be broken.
I guess the Cron backup is ok and it also uses the iso-8859-1 encoding I use on my site, but the manually backup version seems to miss all kinds of stuff although it really seems to backup all the tables.
Am I making a mess of this comment ;):) ?
I just wanted to drop you a line and say thanks for your work with WordPress plugins, and also that it is really encouraging to see outspoken Christians contributing nicely to the geek-like community of WordPress.
Thanks again,
A fellow Christian
Hi,
Thanks for the wordpress info. Good to see a theologically conservative church in Boston, with an aspiring techy/philosopher in its ranks. More churches need that!
a fellow christian, aspiring philosopher
and fan of my job http://www.wycliffe.org
This is what I love about the web community… you never now who you’ll run into.
Shouts out from a fellow Christ-follower, web designer, WordPress connoisseur, and expository aficianado.
I stopped by looking to backup WP 2.1 (was surprised to find it NOT bundled since they bundled it with 2.0) and discovered loads of other plugin goodness and such.
Stop by sometime - either SteveMooradian.com or Negative99.com.
props to your efforts
I just wanted to thank you for this great plugin, WordPress Database Backup.
I actually lost all of my blog articles last year because I was using free blog service in Japan. So I decided to switch WordPress to keep my data. Now I accidentally found this plugin, so I will never loose the data.
Thank you again for the great plugin.
God bless you and your family! Thx for all the hard work with the templates.
Thanks for your continuous work on the WP plugin! It’s a great way to simplify database backups.
Don’t forget to add a shipping address to your Amazon Wishlist, so people can actually reward your work somehow
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