Sticky posts, commenting from the dashboard, I love it!

Also, 2.7 and beyond have automatic upgrade built in.  I’ve been using the plugin, but now it’s not needed.

More details after I get a chance to play around!

Once I’d broken the data down, I needed to use some of it.  Not a problem, except that you get some really weird characters if your results contain quotes, double quotes, etc.  Here are some of the ones I received: â€œ, â€, â€˜, and â€™.  This post has a nice little array set up to take care of those issues.  I implemented it, and it works beautifully.

This was shaping up to be the biggest hurdle in developing the plugin.  There’s still some work to do with configuration, but Glenn’s article makes the technical part pretty easy to handle.

If you’re a blogger who is interesting in auto-generating some good content periodically that is useful to your readers, stay tuned.  I’ve got something really nice in the works!

Digging around, it turns out that there’s an issue in the /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php that asks for meta data about all the posts.  I found this great article with the fix, and it points to these two lines in the edit-form-advanced.php file:

$metadata = has_meta($post->ID);

list_meta($metadata);

So if you have a lot of posts and a lot of metadata like ‘Coma does, this will take forever and time out.  All you have to do is comment out these lines and you are set.

Hopefully you have a hearty blog with lots of posts and lots of comments, and this problem will affect you.  And hopefully WordPress will fix this in their next release!

There’s a strange bug in version 2.6 that disables permalinks that contain “index.php”. Luckily, I found this fix at JayGeiger.com.

The weird part is that you have to change your settings for tags and categories to the very values they default to, but my category and tag pages were working fine. I haven’t dug through the code yet. Any volunteers?

We had people there from as far away as Michigan and Texas…plan on making this event next year if you have the opportunity.  At $25, you can’t beat the price.

How to change this?

Open up the feed-rss2.php file located in the wp-includes directory of your WordPress installation and look for the line

<dc:creator><?php the_author() ?></dc:creator>

Remove the php code and insert whatever you’d like to use for the author tag. WARNING: When you upgrade WordPress this file will be overwritten, so you’ll have to go back in and change it again. I got caught on that one upgrading from WordPress 2.5 to 2.51

This is a little dangerous because it lets users who don’t know what they are doing screw up or leaves you open to displaying horrendous ads on your site. So I looked around the web and found some examples of the older ads. Here are the ones I’m using if you’d like to copy and paste them if you’re using Harley’s plugin–may save you a little time.

Old code for the 468×15 text link units

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “xxxxxxxxxx”;
google_alternate_ad_url = “”;
google_alternate_color = “FFFFFF”;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
google_ad_format = “468×15_0ads_al_s”;
google_ad_type = “text_image”;
google_ad_channel =”xxxxxxxxxx”;
google_color_border = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_bg = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_link = “000000″;
google_color_url = “000000″;
google_color_text = “cccccc”;
//–></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

Old code for the 300×250 text and image ads

script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “xxxxxxxx”;
google_alternate_ad_url = “”;
google_alternate_color = “FFFFFF”;
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
google_ad_format = “300×250_as”;
google_ad_type = “text_image”;
google_ad_channel =”xxxxxxxxxx”;
google_color_border = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_bg = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_link = “000000″;
google_color_url = “000000″;
google_color_text = “000000″;
//–></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

Old code for a 468×60 text ad

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “xxxxxxxx”;
google_ad_channel = “xxxxxxx”;
google_alternate_ad_url = “”;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = “468×60_as”;
google_color_border = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_bg = “FFFFFF”;
google_color_link = “000000″;
google_color_url = “000000″;
google_color_text = “000000″;
//–></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

If these are the ad types you were looking for, I’ve tested them and they work. Thanks again to Harley for writing such a great and useful plugin!