A while back, I’d looked at a couple of plugins to automate the announcing of new blog posts on Twitter, but hadn’t really found one that I liked. Today, I found myself playing with really short (one-character) IDNs, which led to thinking about URL shortening, which led to YOURLS, which led back to WordPress and [...]
I’m now trying the RPX plugin from JanRain to enable OpenID logins on this blog. On the negative side, I’m committed to using BadBehavior to knock down server load from bots and BadBehavior seems to trap the redirect back here from your OpenID provider. If you try to log in with OpenID and get an [...]
WordCamp Chicago is starting to seem real to me, though perhaps this has something to do with my having decided for sure to attend and paid actual money now. June 6 – 7, 2009; venue to be announced by March 1. More info and signup at http://wordcampchicago.com/.
I’ve had yet another why-didn’t-anyone-tell-me-sooner moment–child themes in WordPress. From How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades (via Parent Child Themes and How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way): Problem: You’ve finally found a theme you like but you want to modify it. The modifications are pretty [...]
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Posted 03 July 2008
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Somehow (my best guess is it happened with the database update in the WP2.5.1 upgrade), the database secret, stored as “secret” and visible on /wp-admin/options.php, changed making the logins for bbPress and WordPress clobber each other (both apps using the same cookie, but each app rewriting the cookie with its own contents, rather than recognizing [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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It seems that some themes that I’d used as the bases for my own themes on my WordPress installs (other than this one) didn’t have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer.php file, like they should, I guess, since that seems to be what the WordPress.com stats plugin needs to register hits. I had been wondering [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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The .1 update that many people said they were waiting for is here. (And there are reminders all over every admin page on my blog, too.) Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if [...]
I’ve gotten into the habit of actually reading the various blogs to which there are links on my WordPress dashboard and I saw this today from boren.nu: To make cookies secure against attacks where someone has managed to get into your database through an SQL injection exploit or other means, WordPress 2.5 introduced a user-definable [...]
5 minutes is a long time for upgrading WP, as far as I’m concerned. I think it might have taken 5 minutes total to upgrade all three of my current WP installs and check/fix plugin issues. Mind you, I use the subversion method of upgrading. If you have shell access and can run subversion, it [...]
Even though the post title and first paragraph are about calling out a sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing alert, most of his post is good stuff on WordPress, with lots of links. … there is a wave of attacks going around targeting old WordPress blogs, particularly those on the 2.1 or 2.2 branch. They’re exploiting problems that have been [...]
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Posted 14 April 2008
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