Keeping WordPress up to date using the standard method of deleting old files, extracting the new ones and then running the database upgrade script is a bit cumbersome, but really not that difficult. Gallery2 uses more or less the same methodology, but it does not require you to delete your files prior to the upgrade [...]
I was just reading photomatt.net and realized that Automattic has acquired Gravatar. I stopped using the Gravatar service when Bork wrote “MyBlogLog” support into his Sexy Comments plugin because it was unreliable and only served up avatars about half the time. I immediatly switched back to Gravatar upon realizing that Automattic had acquired it, and [...]
Last week I took this site to WordPress 2.1 and much to my dismay realized that Ecto, my favorite XMLRPC blogging client no longer worked. It would let me post, but it was never able to update the category information for posts… It just hung with no error. I looked into it, and found out [...]
