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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 …
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This is was my next project.
Update: For now I've solved this problem by using FeedWordPress to pull the Atom feed for the Pelican-specific portion of the website.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This 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 …
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I usually start my posts off with an image that is relevant to the post. I think it adds a bit of drama to what I'm writing about, and it also gives me a nice place to anchor a link to a WordPress tag about the subject. I had this …
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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 …
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On 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 …
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While 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 …
