Archive for August, 2008
A radical new look on the way for WordPress’ administration area
One thing that you can never say about Automattic is that it stands still for very long. That may generate adverse commentary from some but it’s bad to leave things stagnate too. In fact, resting on laurels also generates flak so you can’t please everyone all of the time. Earlier on this year, the WordPress [...]
Oops!
It’s amazing what a misplaced wp-config.php file can cause. Today, one ended up travelling in here while I was setting up a test blog for seeing how WordPress 2.7 was coming along. The result was that content more appropriate to my hillwalking blog turned up on web browsers and in feeds instead of what should [...]
Site NewsAnother way to look through WordPress code
I have complained in the past about there not being sufficient documentation of the actual code used in WordPress itself. True, there is the venerable Codex but that can be incomplete and any extra help is always useful. Peter Westwood (a.k.a westi) has generated documentation from the code itself and put it up on the [...]
A quick way to do an update
Here’s a quick way to get the latest updates on your PC using the command line if you are using Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Of course, you can split these commands up if you prefer to look before you leap. At the very least least, it’s so much slicker [...]
LinuxRecursive FTP with the command line
Here’s a piece of Linux/UNIX shell scripting code that will do a recursive FTP refresh of a website for you: lftp <<~/Tmp/log_file.tmp 2>>~/Tmp/log_file.tmp open ${HOSTNAME} user ${USER} ${PSSWD} mirror -R -vvv “${REP_SRC}” “${REP_DEST}” EndFTP When my normal FTP scripting approach left me with a broken WordPress installation and an invalid ticket in the project’s TRAC [...]
An alternative use for Woopra
Google Analytics is all very fine with its once a day reporting cycle but the availability of real time data dose have its advantages. WordPress.com’s Stats plugin goes some way to serving the need but Woopra trumps it in every way apart from a possible overkill in the amount of information that it makes available. [...]