Most year-end awards are for commercial products. But there's some good free stuff out there that's free but worth paying for so it stays around. Read the rest »
WordPress Stats Plugin Goes Jetpack Only
When visiting the admin panel recently I noticed a message that the WordPress Stats plugin would only get future updates via the Jetpack plugin. Both are from Automattic, the folks who run WordPress.com. JetPack is a bundle of many plugins from Automattic. I have an instant aversion to bundles like this so I'll be moving that site off of WordPress Stats. I've no idea when the lack of a separate upgrade will cause me problems but I'll chose one of the options I'm testing on this site. Read on to see what I've been test driving... Read the rest »
WordPress 3.2.1 Released
Like clockwork, the first maintenance release after last week’s release of WordPress 3.2 has happened, WordPress 3.2.1 has been released. No info on what’s new as the change log is sill empty. The update is available through the admin panel (although I updated through svn). I already updated this site and my others. No database changes were made and a simple update to the files was all that was needed. Read the rest »
WordPress Plugins I Use
With the site redesign I figure it’s a good time to run through the WordPress plugins that I use. Previously I had kept the number of plugins to a minimum, looking for simplicity. Even though I've added some new plugins, I also eliminated some so I'm still at 15 plugins after the site redesign. Here's the 15 plugins I use. Read the rest »
Blog Redesign Take-Two
Well, my weekend redesign/server move seemed to go well. But then I did a couple posts and tried to implement a few tweaks and things began to go downhill. My main problem was I picked the wrong theme for how I wanted to maintain this site. I used WP-Clear by Solostream which was a theme I liked the look of and it had some nice features. It wasn’t a bad theme and it actually suited the reason I picked it. The problem was – I had the wrong priorities. I’d [...] Read the rest »
WordPress 3.2 Released
WordPress 3.2 has been released. Promoted as improving performance and streamlining WordPress. The update closed 402 tickets in the WordPress trac database. Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #54: Vacation is Over Edition
It had to happen sometime, my vacation is ending and it’s back to corporate America on Monday. This blog was silent for a month with barely a peep the month before that but things picked up recently. Recent fun included a new laptop, encryption and some WordPress related changes. Read the rest »
PHP-CURL Library Added to Apache
I was receiving the error "Call to undefined function curl_init()" when I tried to use the Twitter Tools plugin with the newly required OAuth authentication. The solution required a new PHP module but was easy to set up. Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #52: Updates, Updates & More Updates Edition
June was a month of updating old projects and updating software. Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #50: Spring is Here Edition
The first Trail Log of May brings a recap of my website changes and iPad issues along with a quick update on the new software I'm using. Read the rest »
