Subversioning Up
Well, at long last, I finally figured out the trick to installing Subversion on my server. As such, I’m working on switching most of my WordPress installations to Subversion in order to make it _much_...
View ArticleNearly Hacked
So, apparently my blog underwent a minor attack last night. I woke up this morning to an email saying that my new blog had been set up at shamuswrites.com. Now this sent a slight cold chill down my...
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Essential Plugins for WordPress 2.5
With every new version of WordPress, I update my list of plugins that I consider to be essentials. That is, these are the group of plugins that I install in almost every instance of WordPress that I...
View ArticleComicPress 2.5 and ComicPress Manager
It is through the efforts of two gentlemen that the existence of “Reclaimer”:http://reclaimercomic.com is possible. The first is Tyler Martin, who has created the beautifully designed...
View ArticleNo WordPress 2.5.2?
Ok, for possibly the first time ever, I’m actually a little annoyed with the WordPress developers. WordPress 2.5.x has a known bug pertaining to users not being able to reset their passwords because of...
View ArticleBulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and...
View ArticleExcluding Page IDs from a Custom Query
Available on the DailyBlogTips website is a theme called StudioPress_Red. The theme uses a custom query to list the pages in the site navigation while applying a ‘current page’ class for styling the...
View ArticleThesis vs. WordPress
There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is...
View ArticleAndrew Nacin: My Mistakes with WordPress
This is a good — and quick — video from one of WordPress’ core developers about mistakes he’s made with the platform. If you use WordPress and especially if you do any kind of development, it’s an...
View ArticleQuitting IntenseDebate
That’s it. I think I’m done. I’ve had a pretty good relationship with IntenseDebate’s services on my various websites for quite a while now. Sure, there have been hiccups and periodic issues from time...
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