WordPress: Migrate! Version 0.0.4

A new version of Migrate! is now available to download from Github [https://github.com/ErisDS/Migrate/zipball/master]. What does this fix? This is a really small update / bugfix to add support for https:// in the URL checks. All credit goes to bteryk [https://github.com/bteryk] It'…

WordPress: Migrate! Updated

A new version of Migrate! is now available to download from Github [https://github.com/ErisDS/Migrate/zipball/master]. What does this fix? A few people have reported having problems using the Migrate! script with their local setups as it constantly shows an error message saying "Your current URL…

WordPress Automatic Upgrades - One of the pitfalls

[http://res.cloudinary.com/hannahwf/image/upload/v1392491849/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb_s5g5bf.png] This morning I woke up to announcements of a security upgrade (3.0.4) [http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/] for WordPress. It is highly recommended that everyone upgrade their installs. I set to the task of upgrading…

Four things for four months (ish)

[http://erisds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/dreamstime_13555466-e1284324551793.jpg] Today is my 25th birthday. It feels like a milestone, something that needs to be marked and celebrated. Scarily it's lead me to do a little thinking and life-pondering. We're fast heading for Q3 of…

WordPress: link_before and link_after don't display in wp_list_pages

Have you ever stumbled across the issue where wp_list_pages isn't spitting out the text you define for link_before and link_after? I came across this some time ago: one minute my lovely pipe bars '|' where there, the next they weren't. It…

Upgrading old WordPress installs - not as scary as you think!

Earlier this week I received an email requesting some help with a WordPress install that had been hacked. The site was almost 3 years old and was still running WordPress 2.2. It was quite funny getting to see and play with retro WordPress again, but it had to go.…

Symfony: New Static Text Management Plugin

Generally, when I find something interesting I use twitter & delicious to spread the word, but this morning something in my RSS Reader got me excited enough to decide to write a blog post. Thomas Rabaix has hit the nail on the head with his latest offering: Wording is not…

Spotlight: Wordpress Pods Plugin

Please Note: This article was written about Pods CMS version 1.6.6 and you'll find some of the bugs and issues mentioned are now resolved. Have you ever needed to build a website which fit into the "Posts & Page" paradigm of Wordpress 95%, but…