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The OS Quest Trail Log #44: Long Overdue Edition

October 4, 2009
Steam Locomotive

Egads! It’s been over 2 months since the last trail log. I also came across an old comment where I’d being doing the trail logs weekly. A week, two months, barely a difference. Unfortunately the real world has been intruding on the quest more than I’d like so while there have been a lot of [...]

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WordPress – The Windows of the Internet

September 7, 2009

It’s been widely reported that sites running the standalone version of WordPress are under “attack” and vulnerabilities are being exploited to insert malicious code into the site. I couldn’t help but notice similarities to Microsoft Windows.
While WordPress may not have the same market share as Windows it does have greater mindshare than any other single [...]

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WordPress 2.8.2

July 20, 2009

It figures, I just get everything up to WordPress 2.8.1 and the next day a new version gets released. WordPress 2.8.2 fixes a XSS security vulnerability. The good news is that it was quick easy to update my WordPress installations since they are all now maintained using svn. There were only 8 changed files which [...]

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WordPress Updates & Converting to SVN

July 19, 2009

WordPress 2.8 came out awhile ago and there was immediate talk of WordPress 2.8.1 to fix some issues. So I was in no rush to do any update despite liking to stay up to date. WordPress 2.8.1 was released so I decided to bring all my sites up to WordPress 2.8.1 and to update [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #40: April 2009 Edition

May 1, 2009

Ok, it’s actually the first of May so the title is wrong, but this post is all about the last month. I had 14 posts this month. I have to go back to July 2008 to find a month with an equal number of posts and March 2008 to find a month with more posts. [...]

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Caching WordPress Pages with mod_expires

April 30, 2009

The final step in my WordPress/Apache optimization was to look at mod_expires. The Apache mode_expires module is used to tell a browser how long it can cache the page. With expiration enabled a browser will refresh a page from it’s local cache rather than the server, at least until the page expires.
On my site [...]

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Apache mod_deflate with WordPress

April 29, 2009

To continue along with my Apache experimentation I decided to enable Apache mod_deflate on my server. All I run is WordPress and I probably won’t gain much of an increase over enabling compression in WP Super Cache. But at least this way I won’t be limited to the plugin and WordPress. I’m running Apache [...]

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MYSQL / WordPress Database Backup

April 26, 2009

While my server image gets backed up daily by Slicehost, and my web files get backed up daily by me, there’s a potential gap in my WordPress database backup strategy. I back it up whenever I think of it but since it’s a manual process it’s done less and less frequently. If my database [...]

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Favorite WordPress Plugins: WP Super Cache

April 25, 2009

There’s a few WordPress plugins that I just can’t live without. I like (and need) them so much that I’ve contributed to the plugin author to encourage them to keep developing the plugin. There’s only a few of these and the first I’ll write about is WP Super Cache. As the name implies it’s a [...]

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Apache Modules Needed For A WordPress Site

April 23, 2009

Continuing along my recent WordPress theme but veering into Apache Server territory I took a look at the Apache modules that are required for my WordPress site. I’m running WordPress 2.7.1 on Apache 2. It’s pretty basic, just WordPress and some plugins, not heavy on file downloads or streaming. I’m hoping to save some memory [...]

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Windows Live Writer WordPress Theme Detection Error

April 22, 2009

Might as well continue the WordPress theme with a quick post. I use Windows Live Writer for most of my posts. I’ve been setting up a new site but when I went to add it to Windows Live Writer it gave me an error that it couldn’t detect the style. I could see the temporary [...]

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