One of the new features in the upcoming WordPress 2.2 release is an option to “Deactivate All Plugins” with one click. Our standard advice is to deactivate all your plugins before upgrading so that out-of-date plugins won’t break your system mid-upgrade. But in the past, you had to deactivate plugins one at a time. Thus the new “Deactivate All Plugins” button to make this easier.
While testing some things on my development system, I was frustrated that after an upgrade, I still had to reactivate my plugins one by one. [...]
March 13, 2007 – 11:55 am
One of the coolest things about WordPress is the powerful Plugin API which allows us to create add-ons which can radically extend the basic functions of our sites. Most plugins can be used simply by dropping them into your plugins folder and activating them. I don’t use a ton of plugins compared to some people — I can be a bit picky about what I add. And I’m not going to list every plugin that I’ve got active here, but I thought I’d point out a few of my favorites:
- Akismet
- There are a lot of people who swear by Bad Behavior or Spam Karma 2. [...]
The word just went out today that the WordPress.com blog hosting service now supports OpenID, both as a server and a consumer. Supporting it as a server means that if you have a blog on WordPress.com, you can use your blog URL as an OpenID. Supporting it as a consumer means that you can use any OpenID to login to your WordPress.com account (once you’ve associated your OpenIDs with your regular login). [...]
February 13, 2007 – 2:01 pm
Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. There seems to be a buglet in the functions that attempt to automagically add the OpenID login fields to the comment form. So I had to disable that option and manually edit my comment template file to insert the appropriate bits. I don’t like having to modify the theme files (it’s going to make it harder to upgrade when a new version of Sandbox comes out), but that was my best solution, short-term.
In other news, Microsoft is working on interoperability between OpenID and their CardSpace™ framework. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress
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Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Identity, Microsoft, PHP, Sandbox, SingleSignOn, SSO, Web, WordPress, yahoo
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February 5, 2007 – 1:57 pm
Okay, I think things are finally (more-or-less) back in shape around here. Sorry about the problems you might encountered here over the past few days. I finally upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1, but I encountered some problems along the way. The problems were really indirectly related to the upgrade, and turned out to be my own dumb fault.
On Friday, I decided to use my lunch hour to perform the upgrade. I backed up my database and my wp-content directory, deleted all the old WP files (I traditionally haven’t bothered with that step, but I knew that several files were renamed/outdated, and I wanted to do some general housecleaning anyhow), installed the new ones, and upgraded the database schema via wp-admin/upgrade.php. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Plugins, Themes, WordPress
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Also tagged Amazon, PHP, Plugins, Sandbox, Spam, this-site, Upgrades, WordPress
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January 22, 2007 – 11:31 pm
Hot off the presses is the latest feature release of our favorite blogware: WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. You can find a bore-you-to-tears detailed list of bugfixes and feature changes in the Milestone report over on Trac. But here’s my version of the short list of changes:
- Tabbed WYSIWYG/Code editing: You can now easily switch back and forth between the WYSIWIG (AKA: RTE, or “Rich Text Editor”) and the old-style editor with quicktags.
- Autosave: When editing posts, your changes are automatically saved every two minutes, as long as you’ve set a title.
- Spellcheck: The RTE now includes a spelling checker. [...]
January 19, 2007 – 2:20 pm
I’ve added OpenID authentication here, thanks to the excellent WordPress OpenID Plugin from VerseLogic. If you already have an OpenID identity, you can now use it when commenting here, and your name will be flagged with an icon to signify that your identity was confirmed. If you don’t already have one, you can sign up with any of several OpenID providers. I use MyOpenId.com for mine.
If you want to read more about what OpenID is about, try starting with Simon Willison’s excellent post, How to turn your blog into an OpenID. [...]
October 29, 2006 – 1:17 am
Earlier this evening, while my family and I were enjoying dinner at a local Japanese steakhouse, WordPress 2.0.5 “Ronan” was officially released to the world. This latest release consists mainly of minor bugfixes, minor feature enhancements, and a couple of database speedups. . [...]
Follow you, follow me
Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. It also added a minor new change which was mildly controversial to some: comments were automatically flagged with the ‘nofollow’ attribute.
The
rel="nofollow"idea had good intentions: to give content producers a way to link to another site without implying that they approve of it. [...]