Monthly Archive: September 2007

Sep 23

WordPress 2.3 and My Plugins

Looks like the forthcoming WordPress 2.3 won’t be doing my plugins any favors.  Visualize Advanced Features — This one is no longer necessary with 2.3.  The editor button that it enabled is now enabled by default! Add Releated Posts to Your Feed — This one relies on Ultimate Tag Warrior or Wasabi Related Posts. Regardless …

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Sep 22

Testing New WordPress Versions Part 4: Upgrade!

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This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install .  Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the copying of the current WP …

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Sep 19

Short Detour with the Testing New WordPress Series – Database Issue

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After finishing yesterday’s article, I noticed I had a problem with the newly copied local blog: Funny characters showing up in my posts! In IE7, they’re little empty squares: In Firefox they’re black diamonds with question marks: I checked the live MySql version against the one that came with XAMPP. While not identical, they’re close. …

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Sep 18

Testing New WordPress Versions Part 3: The Files

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This is Part 3 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install .  Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. This step will tackle copying the actual blog files and …

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Sep 17

Testing New WordPress Versions Part 2: Data

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This is Part 2 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install .  This step will tackle copying the database from our live site to our local test site.  Subsequent articles will discuss …

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