Tag: wordpress

  • WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

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    Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now. So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!)…

  • WordPress 2.3 gotchas (or got me's!)

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    Phew! Finally done with that install – ouch! I wouldn’t want to go through that again in a hurry. I hit several speed bumps in my upgrading of this blog from WordPress 2.2 to 2.3 – many of those could have been avoided if I had followed the instructions on the Extended Upgrade page instead…

  • Donncha in Photo exhibition

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    Mallow Camera Club are holding an exhibition of photographs in Mallow Town Library for charity for the next three weeks and fellow blogger, photo blogger and WordPress lead developer, Donncha O’Caoimh will have one of his photos in the exhibition for sale – well done Donncha. Head along if you get a chance, it is…

  • Urgent update to WordPress

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    WordPress was updated to 2.1.2 overnight after it was found that one of their download servers was compromised and malicious code introduced into version 2.1.1 to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution! From the WordPress site: What You Can Do to Help If your blog is running 2.1.1, please upgrade immediately and…

  • WordPress 2.1 updated to 2.1.1

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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 *…

  • Twenty Major exposes himself?

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    Looks like Twenty Major has moved over to WordPress as his blogging platform. Good move Twenty! Wonder what Donncha thinks? One thing though – on Blogspot (Twenty’s old blog host) wouldn’t it be easier for Twenty to maintain his anonymity? Although I see the crafty old bugger has gone through Domains by Proxy!

  • Akismet 2.0 is a life (and comment) saver

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    Tom Raftery
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    Akismet is the default anti-spam plugin which comes with WordPress and it has saved me from literally hundreds of thousnads of comment spam messages (124,200 last time I looked). A new version (Akismet 2.0) was released the same time as WordPress 2.1’s release so it’s release was kind of drowned out in the hoopla. To…

  • Trying out WordPress 2.1

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    I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 this morning and the whole process was remarkably painless. The entire process took about ten minutes – the majority of that time was spent on backing up the previous version and FTP’ing the new files into place. Of course, if you are a client of mine and I maintain your…