Quitting IntenseDebate

That’s it. I think I’m done. I’ve had a pretty good relationship with IntenseDebate’s services on my various websites for quite a while now. Sure, there have been hiccups and periodic issues from time to time, but that’s the nature of...

Andrew Nacin: My Mistakes with WordPress

This is a good — and quick — video from one of WordPress’ core developers about mistakes he’s made with the platform. If you use WordPress and especially if you do any kind of development, it’s an interesting look at some things to...

Thesis vs. WordPress

There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is distributed. There was a large discussion yesterday over...

Excluding Page IDs from a Custom Query

Available on the DailyBlogTips website is a theme called StudioPress_Red. The theme uses a custom query to list the pages in the site navigation while applying a ‘current page’ class for styling the nav bar. The navigation code sets up a nav scheme with...

Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments

I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing...

No WordPress 2.5.2?

Ok, for possibly the first time ever, I’m actually a little annoyed with the WordPress developers. WordPress 2.5.x has a known bug pertaining to users not being able to reset their passwords because of invalid links being generated. The short-term solution has...

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