WordPress blogs are based on MySQL and all the dynamic content is stored in a database. After trying out plugins, odd themes, and generally screwing around, my database has items in it that I can’t even recall what they were or if I need them. One way to clean out the database is to export [...]
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WordPress 2.6 (SVN copy not latest.tar.gz)
Well I ripped the band-aid off and did the upgrade. It feels like 2.5.5 or something, not as big a deal as 2.3 to 2.5 was. I keep almost all of my files in wp-content so upgrading was not difficult. I shut down my web server, renamed the old directory for the blog root, and [...]
SVN says WordPress is now 2.6
Going to look at it some more, but I may be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.6 tonight. The SVN update I just did say wp-includes/version.php is 2.6.
WordPress 2.6-RC1
Woo hoo, I see that WordPress 2.6-RC1 came with today’s SVN updates. So far it looks and feels like 2.5.1 with some tweaks. The Google Gears portion, better plug-in management, and now arranging widgets works. When it is released as 2.6 I’ll upgrade this blog. I’ll also get ready for the cries of support forum [...]
WordPress file monitoring
Over a week ago I complained about WordPress users crying security wolf and not being able to recover their blog when the “Bad Thing(tm)” happens. Since then a real brawl developed on the support forum that could be summed up like so: One or more users is insisting that there is an XMLRPC exploit in [...]
Sigh, WordPress users and hacking
If you are not running the latest version of WordPress and you get hacked, don’t go to the WordPress forum and tell the world. Odds are you invited the disaster yourself. When WordPress 2.5 came out I was disappointed to find that the old version 2.3.x was basically abandoned. There would be no more planned [...]
.htaccess fix for machine translation
The current version of ATPP is 5.1 and it works really well. But occasionally I get speed bumps from Babelfish and Google translation engines so I end up turning it off for a while. Without the plugin, when someone goes to the translated version of a posting, they get redirected to the home page. For [...]
Blog re-theming
I’ve been using a modified version of the FastTrack theme by Sadish for a couple of years now. It’s a good theme but it’s designed for a 800×600 resolution screen. Most of the visitors to this website use 1024×768 and on my screen it looked narrow. I felt like I was wasting screen real estate. [...]
All is good with WordPress 2.5
So far so good. Once I stopped using version 2.3.3 and switched to 2.5 I got the hang of the new admin interface. The old Admin-SSL plugin stopped working because the cookie code was from the old wp-includes/pluggable.php. The cookies are different so the old plugin failed. There is a replacement but it does not [...]
Useful WordPress 2.5 Q&A
This is a useful Q&A for common WordPress 2.5 questions.
