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Upgrade or else!

4/8/2008 – 12:48 pm

UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Search, Security, WordPress | Also tagged payattention, Plugins, Search, Security, Spam, Technorati, Themes, upgrade, Upgrades | Comments (83)

Atlanta PHP

4/2/2008 – 11:42 am

Tomorrow night, I will be attending the April Atlanta PHP meeting. My friend Glen Gordon will be giving a presentation titled, “Iâ€™m a PHP dev! Why should I care about Microsoft?”

There are a host of technologies and tools from Microsoft that can add value to your PHP solutions, save you time, and are just plain cool. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Development, Operating Systems, Servers, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged .net, Ajax, Atlanta, fastcgi, iis, Microsoft, PHP, silverlight | Comments (2)

WordPress 2.5 Released

3/29/2008 – 11:09 pm

If you already run WordPress, then you’ve probably seen the other announcements in your Dashboard about the release of WordPress 2.5. There are plenty of details in the Development Blog posting, so I won’t rehash the feature list here. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, WordPress | Also tagged announcement, Plugins, Release, wp25, wysiwyg | Comments (24)

WordPress 2.5 RC1

3/18/2008 – 9:24 am

The first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was announced last night. The adventurous among you can download it for testing. New features include:

Faster load times.
Multi-file uploads.
New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
Built-in gallery function.
Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
New backend design.
One-click auto-update for plugins.
Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plugins’ action. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, WordPress | Also tagged avatars, Beta, cms, contentmanagement, Gallery, gravatars, rc1, releasecandidate, testing, Upgrades, wp25 | Comments (38)

Roadwork Next 15 Miles

3/13/2008 – 7:20 pm

I am preparing to move all of my web and email hosting to a new server. I’ve been fortunate to have an in-trade hosting arrangement for many years now (thanks to Jeff at Iguanasoft!). But my host’s owner is winding down some of his equipment, and I had outgrown the server I was on. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Servers, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged 1024slice, app, hosting, Linux, moving, Servers, Services, slice, slicehost, Ubuntu, wordpressmu, wpmu | Comments (21)

Easy Gravatars 1.2

3/6/2008 – 4:52 pm

Earlier today, I released Easy Gravatars version 1.2. The only change (besides confirming that works in WordPress 2.5, currently in beta, due out next week) is that when installed under WordPress 2.5 or newer, it will use the new core get_avatar() function to generate the image tag. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, avatars, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins | Comments (27)

WordPress 2.5 Beta

3/2/2008 – 9:49 pm

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.5 Beta. So far, everything appears to be working just fine.

And since I know lots of people will ask, I checked my plugins, and most of them (HeadMeta, Text Filter Suite, and Easy Gravatars), work just fine. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, avatars, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, headmeta, plugin, Plugins, text-filter-suite, theme-preview | Comments (26)

Reactivate All Plugins feature in WordPress 2.5

1/22/2008 – 12:11 pm

Once upon a time, I whipped up a Reactivate All Plugins feature for WordPress, to compliment the Deactivate All Plugins action (which is recommended before an upgrade). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged features, interface, plugin, Plugins, reactivate, safemode, ui, usability | Comments (44)

No more daily Twitter posts

1/15/2008 – 2:11 pm

Just as with my daily del.icio.us link posting experiment in the past, I have decided to discontinue my automated daily Twitter summary. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Community, Services, Tech | Also tagged automation, Blogging, delicious, Links, Personal, posting, posts, Tech, tweets, twitter | Comments (8)

Merry Christmas to me!

12/18/2007 – 12:26 pm

I get to unwrap one of my presents early this year, and it ranks up there with some of the best — a new job! I’ll be working with Alex King and the other fine folks at Crowd Favorite. [...]