Category Archives: Wordpress

WordPress 2.6 Released

WordPress 2.6 has been released. It’s an upgrade to WordPress 2.5.x so the WordPress 2.5.x branch won’t be updated anymore. Eventually there’ll be a security related update that requires upgrading to WordPress 2.6.x so I figured I’d get it over with sooner rather than later.
It’s a fairly straight-forward upgrade, just some file copies. It took [...]

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WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade

I finally got around to upgrading this site to WordPress 2.5. Since it coincided with the release of WordPress 2.5.1 I went straight to this version even though all my testing was with the earlier 2.5.0 version. The upgrade itself was extremely straight-forward.
Earlier in the week I made sure all my plugins were at [...]

Popularity: 37% [?]

WordPress 2.5 Released

WordPress 2.5 was released a few hours ago. The timing was good since it gave me an excuse to put off some chores, so I downloaded it and updated my test site.
The update was unexpectedly smooth. I expected some plugin problems but only had one. Here’s my experience and impressions so far:

The one plugin [...]

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Preparing For WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 still hasn’t been released, at least not as I write this, but it is due this week (today actually). [Update: News that it's been postponed a week.] I spent some time on Sunday getting this site ready. Blog Herald published an article with changes theme and plug-in designers should expect. On Friday [...]

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Excluding Categories from WordPress Feeds

I recently wanted to set up a new rss feed that would exclude posts in a couple of categories but include all others. I found these procedures but they didn’t work for me. My feed would only exclude the last category specified. But I eventually found a syntax that works. Here’s the procedure I [...]

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Self-Hosted WordPress to Hosted WordPress.com

My Spam Chronicles site has been dormant since August. There’s a minor WordPress upgrade out now and a major one looming. I don’t want to spend the time needed to upgrade and I don’t want to run old, possibly vulnerable, software. Rather than kill the site I decided to move it to WordPress.com. WordPress.com [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

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