Graded.

I wouldn’t say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my ‘hobby’ of supporting the themes I’ve developed. I’ve been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, making sure my themes work. [...]

Wordpress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit

If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it’s a damn shame that this feed isn’t included in the wordpress planet that’s syndicated across everyone’s dashboard. Security is far more important than wordcamp.
I’m only bringing this [...]

Buckshot Ep. 9: Themes

Disconnected 1.3 is out. It includes support for WordPress 2.3’s native tagging, and preliminary support for WordPress 2.5’s get_avatar() function. I know I said I’d never support gravatars1, but since they’re going native in 2.5, there’s no point in fighting anymore. At least once 2.5 is released, I can write a [...]

Adding Gravatars to Posts

With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it’s built for wordpress.com, so i thought I’d [...]

I Has a Habari

Bluehost updated all their servers last night or so, so my first response was to upgrade from habari 0.2DR to 0.3.3, My first attempt failed, since the bluehost upgrade moved the location of pdo.so, so my old php.ini didn’t work anymore. Fortunately, bluehost now has default php.ini1 , which I installed, and saw that [...]