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WordPress 2.5.x 404 bug?

Miklb — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:57:08 +0000

I’ve only worked with 2.5.x a small bit, but recently putting together a site, I found the most annoying and confusing bug. Using just static pages, my 404 page was returning a loop of all of my pages. Odd to say the least. I tried all kinds of things, and as usual, finally did a little googling.

For those who don’t want to bother reading through all of the trial and error, the end result is that unlike in previous versions of WordPress where you could set a static page for home, and not choose a page for the posts, you can’t do it now. You must select some page for your single posts. I’m sure a bug fix will come along, but until then…

Format Your Blog for an iPod/iPhone

Miklb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:34:41 +0000

wptouch: wordpress theme + plugin » BraveNewCode

WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.

WP 2.5.1 Security Release

Miklb — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:04:33 +0000

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.5.1 - Annotated

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix.

Undocumented security issue, particularly for blogs that have public registration, bug fixes included for Media Manager upload, TinyMCE and performance enhancements for the dashboard.

New WP Podcast

Miklb — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:11:10 +0000

The WordPress Podcast » Episode 40: Technorati and older versions of WordPress, Woopra, Weblog Tools Videos - Annotated

Topics covered include:
- - Jonathan and I briefly discuss our experiences at WordCamp Dallas
  - Technorati has decided to not index vulnerable and exploited WordPress versions
  - Will Apple bundle WordPress into the iPhone?
  - I interview John Podzazides about Woopra
  - I interview Mark Ghosh about Weblog Tools Videos
  - WordPress Dev Donncha O Caoimh’s Theme Tester plugin
  - AJAXed WordPress plugin
  - Matt Mullenweg agrees to a “Ask Matt” Q&A segment in future episodes
I’d have to agree with the commenter on the iPhone rumor link that I highly doubt Apple would not use WP due to their iWeb application (unless they are planning on incorporating WP into iWeb in some fashion.

WyntonMagazine latest version

Miklb — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:28:25 +0000

WyntonMagazine latest version

Lots of magazine style themes floating around out there now in WPland, and this beta version, a "brother" of the author’s first foray into a magazine style theme, Brandford – get it, brother, Wynton and Branford? WP jazz, nevermind

As the author states, it’s completely "beta", with no support offered, and missing templates, but for those looking to customize something for their own needs, it looks like just the ticket.

I may even look to adapt it for Habari.

What happens when…

Miklb — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:58:30 +0000

someone steps away from a vibrant, constantly evolving open source project for year, and decides to step back in on some level? Apparently a lot. I had a lot of personal issues with certain aspects of the community, and decided to step away, rather than join the chorus of those that simply slagged the powers that be, however, that animosity has waned, and I want to now see where things are. There are certainly plenty more current, and heavily followed sites out there dedicated to WordPress news, not to mention, since the inception of this site, the official WordPress site has added the plugins repository, so finding new and updated plugins are much easier. I still need to find a niche, or some use for this site, and over the course of the next few weeks I hope to do so. I certainly want to update the design, perhaps to a more magazine style theme, and while doing that, and other tweaks, I’ll find a new voice to utilize this space. If anyone is still reading this, I’d love to hear suggestions on what might be worthwhile to cover.

Win $1,000 in WordPress Theme Design Competition

tdomf_a47d1 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:28:24 +0000

Would you like to win $1,000? How about some Free Web Hosting? Or maybe a free feature on a PR6 Newsletter and Blog in a web developer community?

If you design WordPress themes and answered yes to any of the questions above, then check out the WordPress Theme Design contest over at Lunarpages Web Hosting, where you can win all of the above and more!

Not only do you get $1,000 and 5 years free hosting as a Grand Prize winner, but you have the chance to win 2nd and 3rd place runner-up prizes as well, you get to be seen by over 140,000 webmasters at Lunarpages Web Hosting, and one lucky winner will be featured (including text links) in the Lunarpages Web Hosting Newsletter and Blog! Not to mention getting your theme out in front of the webmaster community to vote on and download.

Check out the contest via blog.lunarpages.com/2008/04/02/designers-win-1000-and-5-years-web-hosting-wordpress-theme-contest-series-2/

This post was submitted by Tiara Rea.

WordPress 2.5 news

Miklb — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:24:59 +0000

WordPress weekly digest 25th February to 3rd March 2008 « westi on wordpress Annotated

I haven’t been updating this site, despite much desire to start again, however since I use WP less and less, I tend to neglect this one. However, I recently discovered diigo, it has a nice little post to blog (sorta scribefire built in), which I’m testing out right now. Soon enough I’ll find out if it works as hoped, and if so, I might just start updating the site more often. In the meantime, here are some of the recent updates to WP as 2.5 is quite belated. (More on that later).

Changes to do_feed() to ensure that an error page is generated when a non-existent feed format is requested (#5446).
Introduction of a new image_resize() function (#6005).
Introduction of get_temp_dir() to allow for the different locations temporary files may be stored (#5984).
An update to the in_category() function to support category names that are all numbers and add documentation ([7064]).
Change to generating random passwords for users created during import (#5837).
A fix to the WXR importer to ensure that tags are imported correctly by name rather than as numbers (#5330).
A fix to ensure that the current_page_item class is set correctly when listing pages (#2959).
Introduction of get_post_ancestors() and the addition of the current_page_ancestor class to ancestors of the current page when listing pages (#5662).
Fixes to the plugin update code to use string comparison to detect version differences (#5978).
Introduction of post editing collision detection (#6043).
Changes to switch preg_replace() calls with the e modifier to preg_replace_callback() to improve security ([7056], #5644).
Update to TinyMCE 3.02 (#6012).
More updates to the new media library (#5911).
Lots of updates to the new admin style.

Hiatus Wrap Up - Plugins

Miklb — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:08:37 +0000

I’ve already covered themes, so now to wrap up any plugins that I saved links for over the last month or so.

First is AdIcons, an interesting little take on selling some link love. Basically it seems you use a sites favicon and have a small grid to fill. A fairly unobtrusive way to monetize your site, or just an interesting way to link to friends/community.

Next up is a simple, but interestingly well conceived plugin. WordPress VCard, which basically allows you to add your info via an admin panel, and then have a downloadable VCard in your sidebar (I imagine you could also have it on an about page as well). Works both as a widget and a standard plugin.

The next plugin I haven’t tested, but need to, as many will know that there’s been a bug in WP for quite some time that if switching from VRE to HTML view, any tables with added styling, the code is stripped, the table is borked, and back to square one. So the Spreadsheet to Table plugin may very well be the answer in the short term. If anyone gets a chance to test this before I, please leave a comment on your experience.

The last plugin I’m going to mention, to me, is more invaluable than ever, considering the fact that “widgets” went into the core of WP 2.2. This plugin allows for the execution of PHP in a widget, so basically you can customize template tags, older plugins, etc from within the admin panel. This will be especially helpful, IMO, to those who help manage blogs for others.

And finally, Devlounge has written a series How to Write a WordPress Plugin. Everything from why to write one, to creating an admin panel has been covered so far (as of today, the latest installment is interaction with the database). Anyone curious about stepping into the realm should definitely take a look.

That about covers the top items I had bookmarked over the past month, so posting should return to the normal one item per post routine I’ve normally followed.

Catching Up - Themes

Miklb — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:08:35 +0000

Rather than a series of posts, I’m going to simply do a wrap up post covering any links I’ve saved over the past month theme related, and then return to my normal posting methods.

First up is Grid Lock, a magazine style theme, which was recently updated. If you aren’t familiar with it, as I said it has a magazine style approach to the home page content. This means a featured category gets top billing, and sub categories have smaller sections below. There’s an options page to configure the categories. While looking at that, check out Gridlock-K2, a K2 style based on the original.

Next up, a very stylish 2 column theme from Justin Shattuck, Salmon. Beautifully designed with a darker, modern feel, a great example of a quality theme.

AboutMyDot.Net has several nice looking themes. Unfortunately, the previews aren’t working, so can only go by the screenshots, but the theme, A Nice Touch seems particularly well done.

And to wrap up, Smashing Magazine has done it again, rounding up 10, Fresh, Elegant and Clean WordPress Themes.