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Survival guide to LAMP: Multiple weblog support in WordPress

M is for MySQL and P is for PHP For the LAMP series, I’ve decided to focus on WordPress for the nonce. I’m anxious to dig in and start playing with the tool, not to mention migrate the rest of my weblogs. I’ll return to Textpattern at a later time; or we’ll see how Joseph […]

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Never kick a sleeping giant

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Mark Pilgrim has also made the move to WordPress saying what the rest of us have been saying, that it’s not about the money (i.e. we’re not whining, cheap, spoiled free blogging shits). He wrote: WordPress is Free Software. Its rules will never change. In the event that the WordPress community disbands […]

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Spin City

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s not surprising that yesterday’s unhappiness at the new pricing structure for Movable Type 3.0 has generated response from those in support of the structure, Six Apart, or both. But I am disappointed, no let’s be honest, angry at the deliberate misinterpretation and obfuscation put on our responses. In the […]

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Survival guide to LAMP: Installing the weblogging tools

L is for Linux, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP   I used nextpage to break this writing up into manageable chunks. I know that not everyone likes nextpage, and the implementation in 1.02 is a bit problematic, but we’ll see later how we can modify WordPress to provide full page displays […]

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For those about to move to WordPress or Textpattern…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart released new pricing information today, and no matter how you package it, it’s not going to have people happy. Yes, there will be a free version of Movable Type 3.0. Mena Trott writes, but what she doesn’t say in the page is that free only works if you have one weblog […]