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WordPress 2.5: Looks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though I will be using Drupal for portions of my site, I’m still debating whether to continue using WordPress for purely weblog activities, such as at RealTech. I decided to download the WordPress 2.5 release candidate 1, give it a run. I’ve moved most of my XHTMLating work to plug-ins, […]

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.5: First, install Drupal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Anil Dash had a clever and humorous, as well as telling, guide titled, A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide. His advice? As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type. I wasn’t even aware that a 2.5 upgrade […]

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Stormhoek: Shiny, happy people do Grapes 2.0

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Talk about webloggers being had… Frank Paynter had a couple of odd posts about Stormhoek, the South African wine made famous by weblogging. It would seem that Stormhoek was really nothing more than a concept in search of a vineyard in 2003, and now that some level of success has been reached, is scratching the vineyard. […]

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Bye Dare

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that’s really unhappy news this morning: Dare Obasanjo is quitting his weblog. Dare’s been around weblogging as long as I have, and I’m sorry to see him go. Dare’s always had challenges with what he could write in his space. He’s an outspoken person who doesn’t hold back criticism, even […]

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WordPress at the top: not

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The biggest mistake I ever made was to install WordPress at the top level. The second, was to use “smart” URLs. My site was restricted due to bandwidth overlimit this morning, something that shouldn’t have happened. When I checked my stats, one site, proxyit.com, was hammering my bandwidth. Checking the […]