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  • For a short time only…

    For a short time only…

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    Tom Raftery
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      Yesterday was my last day working for RedMonk. I headed up RedMonk’s cleantech, energy and sustainability practice which we called GreenMonk, for almost eight years, but all good things must come to an end. Here’s some of what I got up to while I was with RedMonk. I’m fortunate now that I’m talking to a…

  • Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Beware if you update to WordPress 2.5 and are using the very popular K2 theme. If you are using K2 and you do update to 2.5, you will receive the following error on trying to browse to your WordPress dashboard: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /path-to-blog/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31 A bit of…

  • WordPress 2.5 RC1 released

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    I read Matt’s post about the release of a beta version of WordPress 2.5 this morning with great excitement (sad aren’t I?) and immediately downloaded it. The screenshots Matt put up look great and I can’t wait to try it out. However, then I had a rare moment of clarity. Waaaait a sec Tom. Let’s…

  • Updated to WordPress 2.3

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    Tom Raftery
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    WordPress 2.3, the latest version of the blog software which runs this (and many other) blog(s) was released on Monday. I updated this blog to WordPress 2.3 overnight. If have notice any problems or issues with this blog which may be associated with the upgrade, please let me know either through the comments or by…

  • WordPress 2.1 updated to 2.1.1

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    Tom Raftery
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    WordPress 2.1 has be updated to 2.1.1 The update is a low to medium priority update and: includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. This is a list of the files changed from 2.1 to 2.1.1: * wp-includes/post-template.php * wp-includes/cache.php * wp-includes/formatting.php * wp-includes/category.php *…

  • Comment issues on this site fixed?

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    Tom Raftery
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    A couple of people mentioned to me that they were having issues leaving comments once more on this site. On the advice of Donncha (lead developer for WordPress.com), I installed wp-cache 2.0 on this blog along with Donncha’s own patch for it. It certainly seems to have speeded up the blog – is anyone still…

  • WordPress updated to 2.0.4

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    Tom Raftery
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    WordPress was updated to version 2.0.4 over the weekend. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board. WordPress 2.0.4 is available for download here.