‘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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WordPress 1.2 release
The long awaited WordPress 1.2 has just been released. You can download the source directly at the Source Forge page if the WordPress site is slow. A major architectural update in 1.2 is the tool now makes about 25% less calls to the database, which should make significant improvements in performance. I’ve noticed this improvement in my working […]
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, […]
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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Last week Liz Lawley wrote what I thought was a very thoughtful piece, both at her weblog and at Many-to-Many. She wrote: I think we’re watching a significant moment in weblog history. Justified or not, the anger among MovableType’s users will push many of them to new tools, and has permanently changed the […]