March 4, 2007 12:54pm

WordPress 2.1.1 is dangerous, upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately

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WordPress 2.1.1 is dangerous, upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately. Some malicious code has been injected into the WordPress 2.1.1 code, and an immediate upgrade is urged. Notify all your friends and relatives.

Follow the upgrade directions in the WordPress documentation, and the process is pretty simple. I even left this post written and unposted, then posted after the upgrade and everything was fine.

March 3, 2007 5:40pm

WordPress OPML file import bug

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My problem importing my blogroll had nothing to do with an invalid OPML file, there is a bug in WordPress. The file imports correctly when imported from a URL, but not from a file.

March 3, 2007 5:21pm

WordPress links fixed

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So, now links work. I had decided to change the permalink mode from the "ugly" default to "almost pretty", which makes permalinks look like http://www.twofishcreative.com/michael/blog/2007/02/27/wordpress-woes/. What I didn't do was create an .htaccess file so that WordPress could use apache's mod_rewrite to make sure that those almost pretty links actually work. All I needed to do was ssh to my host, change to my blog directory and touch .htaccess chmod 666 .htaccess Then when I chose the almost pretty permalink option WordPress updated the .htaccess file to include the necessary rewrite rules. More information can be found under the Wordpress ...
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February 27, 2007 10:35pm

WordPress woes

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Okay, this isn't going so well. I've edited the About page, and now I get a 404 on it. I'm sure it worked before, and all I did was edit content. And none of the category links are working either. I started mucking with the theme code, I'm pretty knackered at the moment, and that's not the best time to start hacking with themes, but I can't see that I would have done anything bad. I'm not sure what I broke. [Update: hmm, not even the links to posts work]

February 27, 2007 7:28pm

Importing my blogroll

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I subscribe to a whole lot of feeds (well, a whole lot for me is about 30, I don't know how people pretend to keep up with thousands). There's this blogroll feature on WordPress, so I think, wouldn't it be great if I could just import my feeds to the blogroll. Turns out you can. In theory. I log in as admin and click "Blogroll", and I see an "Import Links" tab, where I can import links as OPML. All good, I've heard of OPML. I successfully export all my feeds from NetNewsWire, and try to upload them ...
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February 26, 2007 11:03am

OpenID

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After reading Simon Willison's post about setting an OpenID, and watching his screencast, I went ahead and set one up. The most attractive thing to me is a unique URI that I can use to log in to a variety of different sites (okay, there isn't much variety yet), without setting up different accounts on all of them. Tim Bray has written a post on his concerns about OpenID, in which he looks at it from the other side, what does an OpenID mean to a _site_ where someone is logging in (among other things). The comments ...
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February 25, 2007 8:04pm

Installing WordPress

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I was going to write a post about installing WordPress, but the famous 5-minute installation guide is true to its title.
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