Category Archives: Web Development
AutoNav now will select posts by category, tag, or author
My AutoNav Graphical Navigation and Gallery Plugin now will let you select posts not just by postid, but also by category, tag, or author: postid=”category:17″ posts in a numeric category or categories postid=”category:-17″ posts *not* in a numeric category postid=”category:cakes” … Continue reading
Resolving Akismet on large existing WordPress sites
I recently enabled Akismet on a client’s WordPress site that had been running, and accumulating spam, for quite awhile. Apparently there were so many spam messages (over 17,000!) that Akismet would hang with some kind of unreported out-of-memory condition. There … Continue reading
Scottsdale WordPress meetup group
I just found the Scottsdale WordPress Meetup Group/ and am hoping to go to the next one… see you there…
phpBB upgrade error: group_skip_auth
Encountered this whilst attempting to upgrade phpBB using svn: SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Unknown column ‘g.group_skip_auth’ in ‘where clause’ [1054] SQL SELECT a.forum_id, a.auth_option_id, a.auth_role_id, a.auth_setting FROM acl_groups a, user_group ug, groups g WHERE a.group_id = ug.group_idAND g.group_id = … Continue reading
Supporting multiple WordPress installs
Here’s a little Perl script that uses some modules off CPAN to : Find the names and document-root of each website configured on your server Find the version of WordPress (if any) for each website, and the Subversion repository version … Continue reading
Export only a Subset of WordPress pages
In the process of splitting one existing WordPress site (comprised mostly of hierarchically arranged Pages, not posts) I needed to export a batch of pages into the new one. Here’s how to modify your wp-admin/includes/export.php to do that. First we … Continue reading
Some useful WordPress plugins
podPress – Podcast generator EasyTube – YouTube Plugin for WordPress
Subversion on Plesk-controlled subdomain
After much procastination and personal interuptions (you can tell, I haven’t been blogging that often lately) , I’ve managed to install Subversion running as a subdomain with Plesk 8.0 and CentOS 4.3… rest of the story on Alex Le’s blog
Installing WordPress with Subversion
Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion To install a fresh copy of WordPress, type the following at your command prompt, starting from the directory above where you want to install WordPress. These commands will create a directory “blog” for your blog, and then check … Continue reading
HTML 5
After almost eight years, a new version of HTML is in the offing. HTML 5 promises to bridge much of the problems in writing content-based web pages with just HTML 4 and CSS. Story at IBM