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

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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

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Scottsdale WordPress meetup group

I just found the Scottsdale WordPress Meetup Group/ and am hoping to go to the next one… see you there…

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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

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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

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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

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Some useful WordPress plugins

podPress – Podcast generator EasyTube – YouTube Plugin for WordPress

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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

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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

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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

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