Scott Yang's Playground

Just ran this on my various blogs: $ svn switch http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0 And navigate to the Admin pages of the blog. Done — WordPress upgraded to the latest and the greatest within seconds. Would be faster if something like git is used instead of subversion (which I found slower and slower than git or hg), but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 finished [...]

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). [...]

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 after [...]

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. Not [...]

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 [...]

Matt: WordPress 2.2 “Getz” has been released. Of course, “Getz” came from the Jazz musician Stan Getz. However the first thing that popped up in my head is actually this Hyundai’s little tinbox. So what do we have? WordPress Widgets — Never going to use it as I don’t even have a sidebar here. Full [...]

Via CaveMoney50, Alister Cameron wrote about Two WordPress Plugins You Don’t Need and Shouldn’t Use. Number 1 on the list: Permalink Redirect, closely followed by Matt’s No-WWW plugin. Actually, since release 0.7, Permalink Redirect can already redirect on hostname mismatches, which makes No-WWW obsolete. That means, my Permalink Redirect is the Number 1 WordPress Plugin [...]

Last week, Mark from Weblog Tool Collection posted his stand on sponsored themes, and asked all sponsored themes to disclose their sponsorship. A few days later Matthew Mullenweg also outlined the social and ethical issues with sponsored themes, and vote for removing sponsored themes from WordPress.org. These are the WordPress themes developed by web designers, [...]

I have just committed a new version of Permalink Redirect plugin for WordPress into Subversion, and this one actually has some new features! Old Permalink Structure Redirect. I figured this detailed instruction is way too complicated. So if you have done the wrong thing, chosen a bad permalink structure when your WordPress blog was launched, [...]