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
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 …
Sep 16
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 1: XAMPP
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. This first step gets us rolling with the Apache / MySql / PHP stack. Subsequent articles will discuss database copying, code copying and, finally, testing the actual upgrade and features. This …
Sep 08
How-to: Another Way to Exclude Posts From the Front Page
Over at WordPress support, it isn’t all that unusual to see folks wondering how to exclude certain posts from their front page. I typically suggest they grab a “category excluder” plugin[1] and add the posts they don’t want to see to a certain category. The question came up again today, but the person was looking …






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