I also updated my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress while building alexking.org v2. Significant changes include: Support for recording page activity (page specific reports will be added after WP 2.1 is released) Added a [?] link (optional) to explain the ‘Popularity: 27%’ that is displayed Added a hook for other plugins to conditionally change when…
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I updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin while building alexking.org v2. Significant changes include: Support for pages as well as posts A link to exit the mobile interface if someone wants to (and a matching link to re-enter). Less blocking access to the admin interface Proper README The updated download is available on my WordPress…
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Note: This is the first in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. So now that the new site is live and I’ve had a chance to fix most of the re-launch related bugs, it’s time to share a little about the process that went into building this version of the site.…
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One of the trade-offs to going with a fully WordPress driven site for content is a little URL awkwardness for image and archive files you want to show/link to on a page. For example, in a “standard” site it is pretty easy to have a page at this location: http://example.com/foo/ and a related file download…
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I’ve gotten a few questions about the new version of this site I’ve mentioned I’m working on, so I figured I’d just blog a response. I’ve been making good progress on it, but it’s been a bit more work than I’d expected. Partly due to my own scope creep. 🙂 The little template system I…
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One of the challenges I’m facing in working on v2 of the alexking.org site is the best way to “stage” the new site. Normally it’s pretty easy. Just build the new site locally and export the database when it’s time to launch the new site. However, since the live site is getting new posts, comments,…
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The theme system in WordPress is one of its great strengths and something that is loved by most WP users. It’s a very good thing. However, different developers like setting up code in different ways. While the theme system works well as advertised, it doesn’t work exactly the way I like to set up my…
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I’ve been doing a little work on a proof-of-concept for a new fully WordPress driven alexking.org site. I’m working off of the current WP trunk (“trunk” is the place bugs are created in any software), so naturally I ran into a couple of minor issues. After a brief IM conversation with Ryan to make sure…
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I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but as of Version 2.0.4 (419.3), my JS Quicktags (example page) seem to work in Safari. Yay!
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I started a small WordPress theme development project a few weeks before I went on vacation, unfortunately the revisions didn’t get back to me before I left for vacation and due to prior commitments I do not have time to complete the work at the moment. The HTML mock-ups have been done, along with a…
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On the King Design web site I use a set of custom rewrite rules to hand off URLs to the WordPress back end. I never had any trouble with this through versions 1.5.x, but when I upgraded to 2.0.x, I ran into some trouble. As it turns out, I ran into more trouble than I…
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My post about my experience upgrading to WordPress 2.0.x has generated some interesting comments. Some folks are considering sticking with 1.5.2 indefinitely. There is one simple reason why you should upgrade: security. The 1.5 branch of WordPress isn’t getting the security patches that the current development branch is1. And even if someone were vigilantly applying…
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This is a more detailed list of the issues I ran into when upgrading from WordPress 1.5.2 to 2.0.2, including the solutions I used. A rewrite rule that generates a URL like index.php?pagename=foo no longer works in all cases. The pagename must now include the parent page: ?pagename=bar/foo where ?pagename=foo used to work fine. I…
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Yesterday WordPress version 2.0.2 was released, fixing several security issues. If you haven’t upgraded already, you should go do so. I spent most of my Friday upgrading WordPress installations (this blog, my Golf blog, the FeedLounge site and the King Design site). For the most part, everything went smoothly – however there were a few…
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I’ve updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin to version 1.8. The main changes in this release: Auto-redirects to posts use the proper WP 1.5+ variables. Localization. The download is available on my WordPress page. Enjoy…