Tag Archives: WordPress

Setting up a robust development environment for WordPress

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

For a while now I’ve been wanting to create a better development environment for myself for working on my WordPress blogs, and other php projects too. I thought that in itself, this would be a good project to blog about … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Headers

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

WordPress 3.0 is out, and is rather nice. I’ve been using the release candidate for a little while on another blog with no hassles at all, and so I was happy to upgrade this site as soon as the full … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.6

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Graeme Hunter

WordPress caught me on the hope a little bit by releasing a new version of their WordPress blogging software, and I decided to upgrade tonight. I had a couple of issues with the upgrade this time that are worth pointing … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.3 is out now – get it whilst it’s hot (maybe)

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Time for a new release of WordPress. WordPress 2.3 brings a long awaited feature, actual tags instead of categories. Word so far is that they are quite basic, and that the underlying tables for WordPress are quite different to cater … Continue reading →

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New look for the site using the K2 theme – Stage 1

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

And there we go, a new look! I’ve been meaning to get into the nuts and bolts of the site a bit more, and have used the K2 theme for WordPress to give me a building block to work from. … Continue reading →

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Update on comment spam issues.

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Well, I’ve removed the stats package, but if anything the spam is getting worse. So I’ll set up a plugin to see if that stops things, have a separate issue on that host that needs clearing up first, then we’ll … Continue reading →

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Is comment spam on the rise?

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

On one of my blogs I’ve had a massive rise in comment spam that has got around my Akismet plugin in WordPress. They aren’t published, as I manually moderate all comments, but it is still a pain. Now my other … Continue reading →

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Firefox tries to save install.php to disk when installing WordPress 2

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve hit this issue before with another php-based product, but suffered it again yesterday when trying to install WordPress 2.2. What happens is that you set up the wp-config.php file correctly, upload all the files to your webserver, go to … Continue reading →

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Moved feeds to Feedburner

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve finally got around to moving all my feeds for my sites over to Feedburner. I’m hoping that in the not too distant future, I’ll be able to hook that up to my various Google accounts for Analytics and Adsense, … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.2 available for download and installed

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

If you’re the sort of person who likes to squint at small type at the bottom of blogs, you will have noticed that I’m now running WordPress version 2.2. It is running nicely on here, no issues with it so … Continue reading →

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