Scott Yang's Playground

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, [...]

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 [...]