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My Script for Auto WordPress Upgrade
I like posting scripts. I am proud of most of them. I mentioned before that I run WordPress trunk and that every day, the auto upgrade script runs, upgrades this blog and sends me a detailed email regarding the upgrade. Not only does this help me keep track of changes from revision to revision without…
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Ninjafying WordPress
In case you’re looking to have WordPress related work done, or want to find WordPress related tips, I’m blogging (and consulting) back over at Emmense. I’ve found that there is a tremendous market for people who understand the nuances and intricacies of WordPress. Since I have been using it for over 2 1/2 years and…
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WordPress Custom Fields Contest
Update: This contest has been extended to March 30, 2007. There is an often-overlooked aspect of WordPress that adds functionality that is more geared to a Content Management System than a blogging platform. And that’s why, perhaps, the world’s #1 blogging software finds that many users don’t really use Custom Fields. I think that’s a…
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WordPress Trunk
It probably interests no one but me, but I’m becoming more of an SVN ninja. It took me days to figure out how to setup a web accessible SVN server with appropriate web, svn and filesystem permissions (i.e. this repository is world readable, but can only be written to by me). I’ve been using SVN…
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How We Mass Upgrade Blogs
I’ve been getting hounded for some time about how we manage mass upgrades at b5media. It makes no sense to tackle things like you might upgrade, say 1, blog. Download. Unzip. FTP. Upgrade. It’s fast, but not when you have over 20 blogs. So I’m releasing our (slightly modified) script for public consumption. Remember, our…
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WordPress 2.0.6: CRITICAL Security Release
WordPress 2.0.6 was released today. This is a critical security release (There are at least two security flaws that I know of that were fixed in this version). I went ahead and upgraded all of our blogs successfully. If you manage more than, say, 10 blogs then perhaps Brian Layman’s script will be useful for…
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10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.0
If you’ve been seriously blogging for any bit of time at all, you’ve heard of the juggernaut that is WordPress. WordPress, of course, is the most popular self-hosted blogging platform utilized by independent writers. The official launch of WordPress 2.0 is upon us and, no doubt, the blogosphere will be buzzing about its launch. As a…