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Slash problem in WordPress 1.2

As you may have noticed, I upgraded this site to WordPress 1.2 yesterday. You may have noticed because WordPress 1.2 has what I consider to be a very serious bug in that it ‘escapes’, or adds a slash, in front of all apostrophe’s in both comments and RSS. This is commonly referred to as the […]

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I’ll take the dusty apple without the worm

‘You’ll have to excuse me if I seem focused on WordPress right now. This week if I’m not working the back end, adding in all sorts of new plugins and other general tweaking around; I’m working the front, creating several new looks for the Burningbird weblog–each as different from the others as possible. Currently I’m playing with […]

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Splitting LAMP from the weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m going to continue the LAMP series later, but won’t be focusing them on the changes I’m making to WordPress. The two discussions aren’t compatible. I’ll wait for the released WordPress 1.2 product and then just post my modifications with instructions about how to incorporate the changes for those interested. […]

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Survival guide to LAMP: Unlimited weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP At this time, being able to create multiple instances of WordPress weblogs isn’t built into the tool interface, and some folks have been turned off of the product because of this. After all, […]

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Survival guide to LAMP: File creations in PHP is nobody’s problem

L is for Linux, A is for Apache, and P is for PHP Before providing instructions for two of the tweaks I made to WordPress 1.2–multiple weblog emulated support and generating static pages–I need to spend some time on the issue of permissions and writing to directories from a PHP application. Typically, when a web […]