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Posted on 31st December 20141st April 2024 by DocBok
Category Pages

I wanted to split up my content in a neat and tidy way. I realised the easiest way to do this would be to split up my content by category.

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Dandong and the Chinese People’s War Museum

Posted on 26th December 201418th January 2024 by DocBok
Dandong and the Chinese People’s War Museum

The train from Pyongyang took us back to Dandong. The first order of business was to find a hotel.

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When Plugins Collide

Posted on 24th December 201412th December 2023 by DocBok
When Plugins Collide

When making a new post one day I came across a bug in my website. I created a new post, attached a featured image, and hit preview. I got a messed up page that had two copies of my featured image above the page content.

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Koryo Museum and the Road to Dandong

Posted on 19th December 20147th February 2024 by DocBok
Koryo Museum and the Road to Dandong

Before returning to Pyongyang we visited the Koryo Museum in Kaesong. This museum houses many relics from the Koryo period. At that time Kaesong was the capital of Korea (the whole peninsula).

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Improved Excerpts

Posted on 17th December 201414th December 2023 by DocBok
Improved Excerpts

The default excerpts in WordPress are, in my opinion, a bit crap. All images and subheadings are stripped out and it always stops in the middle of a sentence. It also ends in that “[.]” which I don’t like.

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Ukraine versus THE Ukraine

Posted on 14th December 201415th December 2014 by DocBok
Ukraine versus THE Ukraine

Why do we English speaking folk insist on calling it THE Ukraine instead of just saying Ukraine. We don’t call it the France, so why does this happen?

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Dog Soup

Posted on 12th December 20147th February 2024 by DocBok
Dog Soup

After leaving the DMZ our guides took us to Kaesong to have lunch. On our way their our guide explained how the culture of side dishes worked in the DPRK.

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Optimising WordPress

Posted on 10th December 201418th January 2024 by DocBok
Optimising WordPress

I spent the better part of last week improving my blog, and I figured I would write about my experiences. WordPress is a great platform and I’m having fun working with it.

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Panmunjom: Demilitarised Zone

Posted on 7th December 20144th January 2024 by DocBok
Panmunjom: Demilitarised Zone

On our second day in North Korea we travelled to Panmunjom, the heart of the Demilitarised Zone. This would be the second time that I’d been here, the last time being from the South.

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Rouge versus Rogue

Posted on 30th November 201418th January 2024 by DocBok
Rouge versus Rogue

This is the first in a series of articles that attempt to put the record straight about mistakes we often see online. In this first article I look at a mistake that always makes me mentally twitch every time I read it – rouge instead of rogue.

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