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This forum post identified the problem, and while I have not get around to look at it, Filipe has provided the fix. So there you go — Permalink Redirect 0.6.3, now with category feed URL fixed. A while ago I have also fixed an issue with Gravatar Cache, when Gravatar2 was released. Gravatar2′s blue’ish logo [...]

Introduction Scenario Installing Vhost Tools Installing and Updating WordPress in Portage Installing, Removing and Updating WordPress in Virtual Hosts Mass Upgrading WordPress Installations Potential Issues Introduction I guess everyone has heard of the recent news on WordPress 2.1.2, which was hurried out of the door because the WP 2.1.1 tarball was somehow altered by a [...]

Just uploaded a small WordPress plugin, URL Absolutifier, that converts relative links and image sources in WordPress RSS/Atom feeds into absolute URL. For example, from <a href=”/code/url-absolutifier”>URL Absolutifier</a> to <a href=”http://scott.yang.id.au/code/url-absolutifier”>URL Absolutifier</a> It was written because (1) I like to use relative URL when I write my blog posts (2) feed should not contain relative [...]

It has to be one of the most frequently asked questions here. “I have changed my WordPress Permalink Structure, and now all my internal/external links are broken. My most popular posts have dropped off from the Google SERP completely, and I am loosing thousands of dollars per day! How can I fix them?” Well, maybe [...]

Did I just say all my WordPress plugins seem to work fine with WordPress 2.1? It turns out one of the new features in WP2.1, where you can set any static page as the front page, will send your browser into a busy redirection loop, when you turn on Permalink Redirect plugin. Well. The bug [...]

WordPress 2.1 “Ella” has been released, only a few days after RC2 was out for testing. I have upgraded all my WordPress blogs (and shared my experience here). So far so good, but I won’t say there’s any wow-factor in it. Mark was frustrated that Atom 1.0 is not supported. Well, so far FOCUSer blogs [...]

WordPress 2.1 “Ella” has just been released. The upgrade is much more painless than upgrading some of my sites from Drupal 4.7 to 5.0. Just do the following on the command line. $ cd /var/www/scott.yang.id.au/htdocs $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1/ $ curl http://scott.yang.id.au/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1 > /dev/null 2>&1 And that’s it! Don’t let the detailed step-through scare you, [...]

10 days after WordPress 2.0.6 has been released, the developers have just announced the release of WordPress 2.0.7, because of an SQL injection issue. Kudos to the dev’s for such a quick turn around, unlike some unnamed big company who would only patch on the holy Tuesday day of the month. Just updated 4 of [...]

Habari: a new PHP5-only, object-oriented and PDO driven blogging tool. Well, everyone has written a blogging tool or two, but I think what differentiates Habari is the momentum behind it — well known names like Michael Heilemann, Chris Davis, Scott Merrill and Khaled Abou Alfa (i.e. many WordPress contributors) were amongst the developers. I guess [...]

Matt of WordPress.com has announced domain registration and mapping for their blogging service — $10/year if you already have a domain registered, or $15/year if you register through them. Very well priced service on a very scalable platform. I’ll sign up if I don’t already have more blog sites than I can currently handle.

Google has released a guideline on how you can use the word “google”, and you are explicitly forbidden to use “google” as verb when you mean searching with an engine other than Google. Lorelle has also written a blog post to warn about using the word “WordPress”, as it is now a trademark of Automattic. [...]

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com has released VIP Hosting, where you get to host your blog on WP.com’s load balancing failover-ready hardware/infrastructure, using your own domain name, and there will be dedicated system administrators looking after network, hardware, database, web server and installation of WordPress to ensure everything is always up. Cost? $500 to set it [...]

It was on wp-hackers last week, and I have seen it numerous times before. If you are a good design artist, and CSS is your thing, then the best way to promote a website might be by adding links to your freely distributed themes for the content management systems of the day. Here are the [...]

WordPress 2.0.4 has just been released, and use “svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.4/” command if you subversion to manage WP installations, instead of going through seemingly complicated upgrade process. It’s a security update (hopefully no new functionalities, unlike 2.0.3), so good idea to apply ASAP.

This is way over due, but I have just committed a new version of Table of Content Generator WordPress plugin. Here’s a list of changes added in release 0.3. Inside page/post template, you can use <?php echo $post->post_toc; ?> to insert the table of content. TOC is now generated for every post, even the ones [...]