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Wordpress 2.9 changed the permission structure away from the permission-based ACL, which confused many users, and created a role-based ACL where roles have permissions. This has royally fubared a few of my sites, which used extensive ACL settings with some custom plugins to enable fine-grained permissions. On the other hand, …

Wordpress 2.7.1 update and the old Wordpress Automatic Update plugin

Written February 11, 2009 in wordpress

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Wordpress 2.7 included a new automatic update feature — tools -> upgrade — that replaces the functionality that was previously only available from a plugin. Unfortunately, the new feature is completely incompatible with the plugin.

If you’re trying to auto-upgrade your plugin and you get a hang at “Unpacking the …

Wordpress’ own Stats Plugin Not Compliant with 2.5

Written April 11, 2008 in howto, reviews, webdev, wordpress

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Man, and I thought my Wordpress upgrade struggles were over.

So, you upgraded to 2.5 a few days ago, and you’re using the Default theme until you have time to customize another one. And you got rid of the old Statspress plugin because after you started getting over 10,000 pageviews a …

Wordpress 2.5, Google Reader’s RSS Feeds, and MagpieRSS

Written April 5, 2008 in apple, howto, php, webdev, wordpress

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You might be wondering what these three things have to do with one another.

The basic gist is that I’m trying to use the Wordpress 2.5 RSS widget to read in my Google Reader ’shared items’ feed. Google Reader will publish your shared items in an Atom RSS feed. For a sample, you can see mine here.

The RSS feed is all fine and dandy. It’s valid, it’s namespaced correctly, and it’s got all but one of the required elements. The problem comes when you try to parse it with Magpie. Inside the “entry”, there’s a “title”. There’s also a “source”. The “source” has a “title” attribute as well.

Using Wordpress as a CMS

Written November 24, 2007 in reviews, webdev, wordpress

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WebDesignerWall covered some wordpress theme hacks … including some that are very helpful if you tend to use wordpress as a CMS like I sometimes do.

Wordpress 2.2.2 and Safari

Written September 8, 2007 in apple, punditry, reviews, symfony, wordpress

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For a long time, I’ve used Safari to post with wordpress. But with my upgrade to 2.2.2 I’m not impressed.

There’s CSS bugs in the admin panel. There’s problems with the editors — code only, becase the visual one doesn’t display. There’s problems with the javascript in the options screens. I had to crack open Firefox just to change the link format.

I know that Wordpress doesn’t claim to support Safari, but fer chrissakes — it’s the third of the big3, and makes up about 5% of the traffic to my site. I’m glad that the themes I’m using at least support Safari.