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A lot of developers don’t like having their sites loaded into a frame with Digg’s new DiggBar, inspiring several scripts to get rid of the bar. John Gruber came up with a short PHP script that prevents the page from loading with a nasty message if it detects that it’s being loaded in DiggBar’s frame. [...]

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I’ve found the perfect WordPress theme, Atahualpa from BytesForAll, which I’m now using at MacMegasite. Every aspect of the theme is completely customizable with 25 pages of options. I highly recommend this theme. With all of those options, you can easily make it your own.

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If you follow me on twitter, you probably saw about 32 tweets spew from my blog, thanks to WP-O-Matic blowing chunks all over my blog, which Twitter Tools dutifully reported as new posts.
I’m attempting to set up automatic photo blogging from my Flickr photo stream. Flickr produces RSS feeds for each tag, so I’m using [...]

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Blogo is a very intriguing new blog editor with some very unique features, including a built-in Twitter client. It has a very nice rich text editing mode as well as a HTML mode.
Unfortunately the user interface is a lot more cluttered than MarsEdit and, at least for a long-time MarsEdit user, a lot less intuitive.
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One of the new features in WordPress 2.7 is “sticky” posts, which will always appear at the top of the home page. The option is pretty well hidden, so unless you know where to look for it, you probably won’t find it.
In the edit or create post screen, there’s a publish options box which lets [...]

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I’ve upgraded MacMegasite to WordPress 2.7. As always, the upgrade was quick and painless: I simply uploaded the files (after backing up the old version) and updated the database through the admin screen. In less than 10 minutes it was back up.

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I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7b3. As always, the upgrade was quick & painless. The only plugin that broke is Leopard Admin, which isn’t really that important any more with the new admin dashboard. I’ll probably upgrade MacMegasite in a few days after more testing to make sure it doesn’t break the forums & [...]

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Lorelle warns about a malicious fake WordPress site that looks like the real one, but isn’t. There is no WordPress 2.6.4. The latest version is 2.6.3. If you “upgraded” to “2.6.4″, then you have installed a fake trojan version (more details here and here). If you’ve “upgraded” to 2.6.4, delete your wp-admin and wp-includes folders [...]

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I upgraded a local copy of MacMegasite to WordPress 2.7 beta 1, which took less than a minute and didn’t break anything. A major Drupal upgrade like that would result in hours or even days of pain trying to fix everything it broke.
I probably won’t upgrade the live site to WordPress 2.7 until at least [...]

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It looks like I’m about to have my first GPU usage overage charge since I switched to MediaTemple due to a large usage spike during my switch from Drupal to WordPress.
Most of the heavy usage occurred during the actual switch and soon after the switch. Although WordPress has a reputation as a CPU hog, I [...]

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I now have a test version of MacMegasite running WordPress at test.macmegasite.com. Try it and let me know if you find any problems.

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I’ve cleaned up a few more issues with the Drupal to WordPress conversion. The major remaining issue is converting users. If I can get an acceptable solution for users, I’ll set up a public test site. I may just have to require all users to reset their password the first time they log in.
One common [...]

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I’ve started testing the Drupal to WordPress migration using a local copy on my Mac. Using D’arcy Norman’s script as a starting point, I was able to convert most of the content. I still have a lot to clean up. Once I work out some of the problems, I’ll set up a test site for [...]

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I’m becoming very disappointed with Drupal, due to version 6’s lack of backward compatibility. A lot of very basic modules still haven’t been upgraded to work with Drupal 6, yet they’re already working on Drupal 7. I still haven’t upgraded any of my sites to Drupal 6 and I probably won’t upgrade them. I doubt [...]

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If you’re running a WPMU site, *never* attempt to ‘update’ it to the latest version of WordPress (non-MU). Very Bad Things will happen. Plugins such as WP-Automatic-Update do exactly that and shouldn’t be used with WPMU. To recover from it, upload the current version of WPMU, get rid of the wp_options table in the database [...]

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Wordpress.org has released the source code for their iPhone application. It’s great sample code that demonstrates some useful techniques such as XML parsing & network reachability testing. Of course this probably violates Apple’s FUCKING NDA, which really should have been lifted when the iPhone 3G shipped and the App Store opened.

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WordPress for iphone has finally been released and is now available in the app store.

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I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.6 and MacMegasite to Drupal 5.8. Both upgrades were quick & painless.

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After my last post, I decided to create an entire site dedicated to bad iPhone application reviews, done with humor. If you want to gripe about the iPhone crapplication you just bought, come to iCrapps.com. If you’d like to post your own application reviews, contact me and I’ll sign you up as a contributor.
My first [...]

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WordPress for iPhone is coming soon! I’m really looking forward to it after the pain of trying to get ShoZu to work with this blog.

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