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 found [...]
I’m proud to be the first to test out Matt’s new Sexy Comments plugin. Since the comments on a few of my stories have taken on feel similar to that of a discussion group, I was glad to see Matt working on a layout that allowed the user to personalize their comment by adding an [...]
My recent posts and dive log entries about my trip to the Socorro Islands have gotten a lot of people asking about how I create the map with post excerpts on this website. I’ve been slow about writing it up because quite frankly the process has been changing over the past week or so. I [...]
A lot of the people I know and work with just can’t help doing a little dance whenever they think of Flickr. They’re constantly raving about how wonderful it is to join this silly little community of photo sharing web pedestrians. I, for my part have always been skeptical. Everyone who blogs needs a way [...]
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 [...]
I’m a blogger. I’m also a systems administrator at a University. Thus, when the University decided to charter a project to offer each member of the institution a blog, I was selected to sit on the committee. We boiled all of the software choices down to Drupal, Movable Type, and Wordpress MU.
In my evaluation of [...]
It looks like Pat Cavit who runs Zilla Smash has coded a nifty little plugin that allows WordPress to authenticate against an LDAP server. Needless to say, this has great potential for universities and organizations who have LDAP based account provisioning and would like to offer blogging to large numbers of people.
So here’s version 1.01 [...]
I wrote this little script the other day to back up my WordPress install. Because I use Navicat, I had always been pretty good about backing up the database, but I didn’t backup the install base nearly as often as I should have. I’m sure it won’t be useful for everyone because it requires access [...]
Since leaving the desolate wasteland of PHPNuke for the bountiful fields of WordPress, I have become quite a fan of the software, and regularly visit developer Matthew Mullenweg’s site “photomatt.net” to see what’s going on with with WordPress development. So, you can imagine my surprise when instead of going to photomatt.net, I mistakenly went to [...]
