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A new version of Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin has been released today. 0.6.0 adds one new function and fixes one annoying issue. Permalink Redirect can now redirect visitors to your RSS/Atom feed to FeedBurner. It is useful for those who wish to track their feed statistics on FeedBurner, and continoue to advertise their old feed [...]

WordPress 2.0.3 has been released and available for download, and it is mainly a bug fix/security release, some back-ported from 2.1. Just updated this blog and it seems to be okay, and I will upgrade blogs at FOCUSer.net tomorrow morning. If you are using SVN to update your site, the revision number is 3825 (btw, [...]

WordPress.com has opened registration so you can get an account without blog attached. Useful if all you want is an API key so you can use products like Akismet, a centralised comment/trackback spam filter (which I previously reviewed here).

Not sure what is going on, and I have not seen others blog about it, but for the past few days Ping-O-Matic is not working for me. Web page took forever to load, if it loads at all. XML-RPC stalls all my posting. The only thing that seems to be working is their blogsite, which [...]

First of all, I have moved the Search Excerpt WordPress plugin from my old personal blog to here. It has also been added to my Subversion repository at DreamHost. Since I wrote the Search Excerpt plugin many moons ago I haven’t bothered to update it since (1) it works for me (2) I am lazy. [...]

Two minor fixes/enhancement since Permalink Redirect 0.5 was released 2 months ago — and both were reported by the users. A typo has been fixed for “Permanently”. Thanks to Ara Pehlivanian A new filter “permalink_redirect_skip” can be used by the other plugins. It can take a list of regex paths and return a list of [...]

Install WordPress via Subversion Install Plugins via Subversion Upgrade WordPress Conclusion This post is inspired by Alex King’s WordPress updates via Subversion. Currently I have got 7 installations of WordPress running various sites of mine (excluding around 20 other installations at FOCUSer.net which I also manage). Each site runs more or less a similar set [...]

WordPress Download Page says the latest is now 2.0.2, although it still points to the 2.0.1 blog entry. version.php on the latest SVN 2.0 branch already has $wp_version = ’2.0.2′, but not yet tagged. I will be ready to upgrade 20+ blogs tonight from FOCUSer.net and some of my own blogs. Update: New entry on [...]

I have finally had a chance to update my Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin. The new release is 0.5 which has some bug fixes as well as new features. /author/%author%/ should work properly now. It was broken in WordPress 2.0 due to changes in userdata cache. Permalink Redirect page under Options menu. Currently it allows you [...]

Woke up this morning, and found WordPress, the software that powers this blog, released a bug fix version 2.0.1. So I logged onto my DreamHost account via SSH, and $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz $ tar zxvf latest.tar.gz $ cd wordpress/ $ tar cf – . | (cd ~/scott.yang.id.au; tar xvf -) $ wget -O – http://scott.yang.id.au/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1 [...]

With long articles, I love to have a Table of Contents nearly the beginning of the page, so that I can clearly see how an article/post is structured (if HTML heading elements are appropriately used), and I can also quickly jump to specific section of the document. Previously with a few of my coding pages, [...]

WordPress 2.0 has been released! Get the fresh meat here. I have actually been using WP.com, beta and RC for a while, so I can’t say that this release contains anything “surprising”. It actually runs slower on my various sites. Oh well, my sites should be upgraded to 2.0 sometime today, whereas sites on FOCUSer.net [...]

Ryan has announced the availability of WordPress 2.0RC3 on their developer blog. Matt has also hinted the up-coming 2.0 release to be on either Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the phrase of the moon. So there you go — I downloaded the latest WP RC, unpack the tarball, run the upgrade script, and bingo! Fucoder.com [...]

Matt Mullenweg announced a new spam combating service — Akismet. If you are a personal blogger, or pro-blogger-wannabe who cannot make more than $500 a month, Akismet is free for you to use. If it is a commercial site, or you are making big bucks from your blogsites — then a commercial license needs to [...]

Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin has now been migrated from my old blogsite to FuCoder.com. 0.4 had some minor changes to resolve certain permalink issues reported by its users. Properly handle multi-page archives, and multi-page post entry. Force an exact match to the permalink, instead of just checking for partial match. So if you have a [...]