Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1
Just upgrade to 2.8.1 and managed to make the SVN version work with judicious use of svn revert and svn switch. Let me know if anything is broken (email chris at csamuel.org or send me a message on...
View ArticleWordPress 2.8.5 released – security fix and hardening work
WordPress 2.8.5 has just been released: As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as...
View ArticleUpgraded to WordPress 2.9.1
Taken the plunge and upgraded from WordPress 2.8.6 to 2.9.1, so if you’re seeing issues with the site leave a comment here, or if that doesn’t work catch me on Twitter. This item originally posted...
View ArticleWordPress “Worst Offenders” Plugin Works in WP 2.9.x!
I’ve just spent a bit of time fixing up a fairly simple bug that was preventing Rich Boakes’s “Worst Offenders” plugin1 from working in current WordPress versions (basically it was assuming it had...
View ArticleTwitter Tools Hiccup
Very weird – for some reason the Twitter Tools plugin for my blog posted 3 copies of the same weekly summary. Deleted the extraneous two, apologies for that! I’ve seen that occasionally on other...
View ArticleWordcamp Melbourne 2011
This coming February (26th-27th) there’s going to be “WordCamp Melbourne 2011” held at North Melbourne Town Hall. If you’re into WordPress – the free and open source personal publishing platform – then...
View ArticleWordPress Upgraded to 3.1
OK, just done an svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.1 to upgrade my blog to WordPress 3.1, and nothing looks too broken so far. If you spot any problems do let me know, either by a...
View ArticleHow to test a WordPress install against a new version, without breaking the...
One problem with upgrading any piece of software is the question of what’s going to break? WordPress is no different in this regard than any other piece of software so before major upgrades I run a...
View ArticleUpgraded to Twitter Tools 3.0 and Social plugin
The latest Twitter Tools upgrade (v3.0) now has a dependency on the Social plugin from MailChimp to take advantage of the open source “don’t reinvent the wheel” philosophy. Having now installed Social...
View ArticleLocking Down WordPress Admin and Login URLs
For those WordPress admins who are lucky enough to only access via certain defined IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) you can lock down access to the wp-admin and wp-login.php URLs in your Apache...
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