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 invalid links being generated. The short-term solution has been for the admin to log into the database and manually change the [...]
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ComicPress 2.5 and ComicPress Manager
It is through the efforts of two gentlemen that the existence of Reclaimer is possible. The first is Tyler Martin, who has created the beautifully designed ComicPress theme. Tyler’s design makes it eminently easier to produce a regular comic using the powerful WordPress platform. I’ve long been a fan of WordPress, and I’ve wanted to [...]
Nearly 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 back, since I clearly already have a blog here. The email gave the typical administrative username, but [...]
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 easier and faster to upgrade in the future. I just switched this site to a Subversion-agreeable install, and I’m pretty [...]
Bluesands 2.0
With thanks to Rob for pointing me in the right direction, Shamus Writes is now sporting a modified, Web 2.0-ish look. I contacted Ant Eksiler, who is giving away free custom WordPress themes to folks who meet a certain set of criteria, and he took my Bluesands theme and tweaked it to give it a [...]
Email Comment Notification Issues
I don’t know how many other people who’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 are having this problem, but I’d noticed that none of my email comment notifications were coming in anymhttp://shamuswrites.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
Writeore. I sent a note about it to the wp-testers list, and found that the fix is pretty easy.
Go to wp-includes/pluggable.php and find and remove line [...]
WP-Stats Problems
I don’t track my blog stats quite as religiously as I did a year ago, so it was a couple of days after I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 before I realized that something very strange was happening with my stats. I switched to WP-Stats awhile back because it’s lightweight and takes some of the load [...]
Tumble Shamus
My tumblelog is officially up and in working condition. I’m using the T1 theme, which is built on the wonderful Sandbox, much to my great joy. I did modify the theme somewhat, though, removing the default T1 image in the header and restoring the bloginfo(‘name’) and bloginfo(‘description’) fields to their proper places. I also brought [...]
WordPress 2.3
I’ve successfully migrated this blog to WordPress 2.3, and I was actually a little surprised at how painless it was. I did turn up a handful of duplication errors with regard to the wp_term_relationship tables, even though I’d made sure I deleted those tables beforehand, but in spite of that, I think everything migrated to [...]
Essential Plugins for WordPress 2.5
By Jim on April 23, 2008
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 run on my site. In the last couple of weeks, there have been several really slick little plugins [...]
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