Over the past few weeks, I’ve watched as Jim Whimpey first started a new Tumblr-based blog, then decided to move permanently from WordPress. He mentions in his second post about how Tumblr is “the joy that I didn’t know I’d lost in blogging”. Based on this, I’ve decided to check it out for myself and, [...]
Ever wanted to reset your password in WordPress, but for some reason or other you can’t use the reset password section? 2.5.1 has a bug where the reset password page doesn’t work, so this might be handy for you.
The phpMyAdmin way
Browse into the wp_users table in your database. Find your username and click on the [...]
As a tip to everyone who uses WordPress 2.5 and needs to input their FTP details every time, you can force WordPress to remember them by adding this to your wp-config.php:
define(’FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp://example.com/’);
define(’FTP_USER’, ‘example_user’);
define(’FTP_PASS’, ‘example_pass’);
//Set to true if your host uses SSL connections
define(’FTP_SSL’, false);
This can be reduced to just your password, if your database already remembers [...]
I’m currently making a WordPress magazine site. Among other things, it needs to show only the posts from the current issue on the front page. It uses categories to mark which issue an article belongs to.
I thought I’d share the code to do this, as it may be of use to some of you. This [...]
WPPulse – A way to check out what WP related people are doing. I’m on the list too
WordPress ›Mobile Admin WordPress Plugin – It doesn’t really inspire much hope when the Trac instance gives a 404 and the forums can’t connect to the database
Looks like Freenode’s Kubrick server has just gone down. #wordpress just went from 123 or so people to 16. Freenode’s probably kicking themselves. Even ChanServ has gone down.
Graffitti disses WordPress — That’s not good. [Via Photo Matt]
My code is now in WordPress trunk and bbPress trunk. Sweet.