As the final release of WordPress 2.5 fast approaches, I've been having a lot of fun playing around with 2.4-bleeding which has since become WP 2.5 Beta. Since the changes have been coming fast and furious these last few weeks I'm sure glad I use a Subversion client to connect to the WordPress Subversion Repository - it provides for a much simpler and faster method for keeping up to date. Running WordPress... continue reading
Are there posts on your blog you regularly update rather than writing new separate entries such as tutorials for instance? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way you could let your readers know when a post was updated other than adding an addendum to the bottom? Well there is. WordPress outputs the date of a post by this tag, Posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> You will find it any all of... continue reading
Although I tend to stay away from flash there are times when you may want to use it in your site. According to Adobe the proper way to embed a flash object in an HTML document is, <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400"... continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I noticed strange traffic to my plugin folder in my server logs. Now it could simply be someone curious as to what plugins I'm running or it could be something more sinister. Not wanting to take any chances I dropped an empty index.php file in that folder. I did the same for the theme and wp-content folders. However, in doing so I unwittingly created a new problem. I thought I... continue reading
If you're like me you prefer installing WordPress upgrades manually as opposed to using your host's Fantastico service. I have seen too many botched installs/upgrades using automated processes like Fantastico that I just as soon stay away from using them. The other thing I don't like about it is that it takes seemingly forever for Fantastico to deliver the update to your host for you to use. Case in... continue reading
