Articles tagged with wordpress

  1. Disabling Wordpress

    Posted on in uncategorized

    Today is the day!

    I've been working for several months to complete the transition off of Wordpress. After making a flurry of updates today, I decided now was as good a time as ever to finally pull the trigger.

    This site started on Wordpress in 2007. Over the years, I've …

  2. nginx: Blocking Access to /xmlrpc.php

    Posted on in System Administration

    I recently ran into an issue on a Wordpress site running behind an nginx web server. The site was frequently being attacked by a botnet hitting /xmlrpc.php so rapidly, it would eventually force the FastCGI processes behind nginx to consume all available CPU. Naturally, this would cause all legitimate …

  3. Google PageRank Tool 0.5.0

    Posted on in Software

    I released a new version of my Google PageRank Tool for WordPress last week. Google recently changed the URL for PageRank information which necessitated a change in the plugin. The new plugin has been tested with WordPress 3.2.1.

    You can download the latest version of the plugin from …

  4. WordPress: Tired of Dashes and Quotes Being Rewritten?

    Posted on in Software

    Using WordPress to write a technical blog can be occasionally frustrating. WordPress uses the wptexturize() function to rewrite certain ASCII character combinations into HTML entities. Although this may generally be a "good thing," it's really annoying on technical blogs where two dashes is not an em dash.

    To disable this …

  5. WordPress Stops Redirecting, Reset Permalinks

    Posted on in Software

    WordPress Horizontal LogoThis is the first time I've run into this problem.

    In the process of disabling some slightly used plugins, slaptijack.com got into a situation where every permalink simply pulled up the home page rather than individual posts. I checked everything (mod_rewrite in my Apache configuration file, changes to .htaccess …

  6. Listing WordPress Database Queries

    Posted on in Programming

    WordPress Horizontal Logo If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the following PHP to your theme:

    <?php
      foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) {
        echo "$query[0]<br />";
      }
    ?>
    

    For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php:

    define('SAVEQUERIES', true);
    

    After that …

  7. WordPress 3.0.1 Fixes Category Base Bug

    Posted on in System Administration

    Official WordPress LogoOn one of the WordPress-based websites I maintain, I have removed the category base so that, when browsing a category the url doesn't end with /category/category-slug/. I accomplished that by putting a single '.' in the "Category base" text box of the Permalinks admin page. This worked fine until I …

  8. WordPress Permalinks Not Working

    Posted on in System Administration

    Official WordPress LogoWhile setting up a new blog for an old site the other day, I ran into a situation where the main page would work, but individual posts would result in a 404 (page not found) error. Checking the error log revealed that Apache could not find the file it was …

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