..and why should we care because he doesn’t have a lot of female readers? He wrote: I’m a bit surprised that there hasn’t been more discussion of the overwhelmingly male (on the order of 80%) cast of political blog readership. At first glance, one might think of this as an internet issue, related to hardy perennials […]
Category: Weblogging
I posted some suggestions on the WordPress magic quote problem at the support forum, here. Before running the application, make a mysqldump backup first, using the following: mysqldump -u username -p databasename > wpdatabasebackup.sql When prompted for password, enter password. And this concludes the last of my posts on WordPress.
Ghosts in the machine
Two long time friends from this world have decided to fold up their blogs, at least for now. Possibly even permanently. The first is our friend from South Africa, Farrago. As she writes: This was fun, but the fun eventually ran out. The second is our friend from the UK, Gary Turner, who writes: What’s brought this […]
Did the port thing
I wrote this before running into the magic quote problem in last post I created another WordPress weblog today by copying the database and files from this weblog, and then once created, upgraded all the files to 1.2. I needed an environment identical to this one to make my edits so that upgrading this site […]
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 […]
