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Got it on WordPress’ Twitter status: WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is now live to the world! http://bit.ly/wordpress28 (spread the good word) Yup. It is here, and you can read more about the new features here. To upgrade to the latest version using subversion while Automattic haven’t tagged the 2.8 – Go into your previously checked-out WordPress directory Run svn switch [...]

I have been trying to install Laconi.ca so I can break free from Twitter, but haven’t really got around to it. Then here comes the thoughts for today — why there isn’t a Open Micro Blogging plugin for WordPress, so I can just Write a short 140-character micro-blog-post, and then assign it to a special category. It [...]

Back to the real reason why Permalink Redirect 2.0 was released. When you visit your WordPress’ plugin manager page, and see the following notice… … do not click on “upgrade automatically”. Let me repeat, Do Not Click on Upgrade Automatically. Because if you do, you will not be upgraded to Permalink Redirect 1.0, but rather a [...]

It has been a while — you might have thought that I have abandoned that little WordPress plugin. It has been hanging at 0.8.x for a long time, but Fear Not! Let me introduce “Permalink Redirect Two Point Oh“! When the Web is about to enter into the era of 3.5, I have finally [...]

shyam: Goodbye Litespeed, hello Nginx, says Wordpress.com. Apparently the reason to ditch LiteSpeed for Nginx is, according to Matt M (but no quotes), that WordPress wants to run open source for their full stack. LiteSpeed is a nice (but expensive) async-IO based web server that provides full Apache compatibility (which is not that useful if [...]

Deep Jive Interests: TailRank Exposes Massive Number Of Blogs Hacked — turns out all the latest spam sites are legitimate but hacked WordPress sites. I have also experienced a surge of trackback spams over the last couple of days, from hacked WordPress sites with their wp-content populated with static spammy content. WordPress 2.3.3 wasn’t even [...]

Two small updates on my code snippet collections. Permalink Redirect 0.8.4 I have updated Permalink Redirect plugin to 0.8.4. The main functionality of this plugin has been replaced by WordPress’ redirect_canonical() function since WP 2.3, but somehow some people are still using this plugin for its remaining functions (permalink structure changes, arbitrary path redirect, etc). 0.8.4 fixes [...]

Went to the Aussie Bloggers forums this morning and spotted this post on an urgent WordPress upgrade (yes, I usually troll in the forums early in the morning instead of reading RSS feeds). WordPress 2.3.3 has been released fixing a few minor bugs and a security issue. Yes, again — less than two months [...]

WordPress 2.3 “Dexter” is now ready for the world, and the new features include native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements and more. It has been five months since the release of 2.2 “getz”, and they are indeed picking up the development speed. Great if you love the bleeding edge of everything. [...]

Sorry I have not been updating this blog. There are simply way too many commitments in life for me to maintain “yet-another-blog”, so I think I might eventually fold FuCoder.com after two years of on and off writing. I will continue to publish code snippets at our personal blog, Scott Yang’s Playground, but even that [...]