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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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 [...]
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 [...]