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Although I still believe what I wrote in which I said that the use of wp_nonce in the last steps of the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin is an unnecessary precaution, I am puzzled why it did not work.  According to Mark’s post on nonces, it sounds like in theory this "number use once" should still [...]

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I have been using this plugin for almost a year. When it works it is great! When I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 I started having a problem with the final two steps, reactivating the plugins and going to the final page. Before I could activate the plugins I had to upgrade the data base. Then [...]

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I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 today and my old theme broke. I have been looking at Cutline for some time but I have not been motivated enough to commit the time.  Today I had the motivation. I am really pleased that I had it ready to go in about thirty minutes.
Cutline 1.3 Released | Cutline [...]

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Wow, I did not know about this security feature in 2.5.  I did not have the ‘SECRET_KEY’ defined since my WordPress sites were upgrades. Since I prefer to follow the Secure WordPress recommendations and missed that section in the paper, I added a random key to all of my sites. The key does not cause [...]

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Recently while upgrading my WordPress blogs I installed WPIDS 0.1.2. WPIDS is a Intrusion Protection System, which is based upon the Intrusion Detection System PHPIDS. It is a nice plugin for those curious about WordPress security. In theory this should improve the security of my blogs.
For the last couple of days I have been [...]

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I installed WordPress 2.5 last Saturday on all of the blogs I support. It had passed some preliminary testing on my development blog so I installed it. It is supposed to have increased security, better administrative panels, and the ability to upgrade plugins automatically. They say there are very few changes that will affect the [...]

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I just finished checking my WordPress sites with both a dork and a FTP. Google says that there 29,000 infected sites. I guess that I was left out of the party since my WordPress sites are at the most recent stable release.
Cyberinsecure recently posted details of an automated WordPress hacking tool that is doing the [...]

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Since I have a local WordPress blog for my development work, this was a no-brainer. I let Subversion do the hard work. I tried the revised admin panels since they have changed significantly. It was nice to know that my theme and my plugins seem to work fine. So far this upgrade looks pretty solid.

Since [...]

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Here is a handy checklist for people creating or modifying WordPress themes.
Note: The following checklist was based on WordPress 2.0. Since WordPress 2.1, WordPress has replaced and introduced new template tags.
Files, functions, and to-dos you need to check-off before using / publishing your own unique WordPress theme:
Files and Templates

404.php
archive.php
category.php [...]

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From the Blueprint Design Studio we get this list of WordPress CMS plugins. I can vouch for Cforms II and Google Sitemap Generator since I already use them. I am definitely going to check the rest of them.

Cforms II - This is far and away the best contact form plugin there is. The reason? configurability. [...]

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A magazine theme with some interesting ideas. I do not know if I am going to use it but I may use an idea or two. Nice work Alessandro!

Options WordPress Theme: What WordPress themes should be likealessssandro Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:30:00 GMT

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 Mitcho found a post I wrote about adding Related Posts to a WordPress blog and said:
I would recommend to you and your readers a plugin I wrote, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. It’s similar in functionality, but has been built with admin-friendliness in mind, and doesn’t require you to edit your theme files. Check it [...]

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Today I tried to get Chili to work on this blog. I post code occasionally and Chili was appealing to me since it uses jQuery for most of the heavy lifting. I was hopeful that Chili would be quick and incrementally increase the amount of JavaScript downloaded. Chili didn’t work for me. It had syntax [...]

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I just changed out one of my WordPress Plugins. I generally use thumbnails of my images and let a plugin called Lightbox show a larger image when the image is clicked upon. Today I replaced WP Lightbox 2 plugin with jQuery Lightbox plugin. I was hoping to reduce the amount of JavaScript the page downloads [...]

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WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.
2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:

Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different thantheir WordPress Address
Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag [...]

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Well, I finally updated this blog to WordPress 2.3. After I upgraded WordPress to version 2.3, I imported my tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior and then I made several changes to my theme before everything looked normal. To get there I had to:

Replace the UTW function in my index.php, single.php, and archive.php files with this [...]

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Yesterday I started updating some of my WordPress sites to WordPress 2.3. I used the WPAU plugin to update two sites and it worked fine. The bad news is that I found several problems. One theme and one plugin were not compatible with the latest WordPress version. I was a little surprised since these were [...]

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The folks have updated WordPress again and I have been evaluating different methods of upgrading. The standard method works but I have been wanting to streamline the process for remote hosts.
For my locally hosted blog I used the Updating WordPress with Subversion method. This is pretty slick! I had previously checked out a copy [...]

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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org
WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin update « Techie Buzz
Okay, I was short on time and was willing to take a chance on a minor WordPress upgrade. I had several sites I wanted to upgrade and this [...]

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I have decided to do some playing around with unit tests for PHP. I saw a video on Getting Involved in WordPress and it reminded me of my interest in unit testing. Now I almost want to create some unit tests for verifying WordPress plugins or phpWebSite code. Fortunately, common sense will prevail and I [...]

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