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WordPress Upgraders — Did You Miss New Security?
29.Apr.08 | 6 Comments
If you’ve just upgraded your WordPress blog — as opposed to a new install — it is possible that you’ve missed out on a new security feature introduced with WordPress 2.5x. Why do I think that’s possible? Well, because I did.
WP 2.5 introduced a “security key” that you add to your wp-config.php file. When I [...]
WordPress 2.5
29.Mar.08 | 3 Comments
WordPress 2.5 just went gold (download). There are a stunning number of changes in this release — and I won’t bother to detail them all here. There’s probably going to be about a kabillion blog posts on that today…
I, personally, am not going to stampede into this particular upgrade though. I’ve been following the WP [...]
Today’s Stumper - DNS
29.Feb.08 | 4 Comments
Our domain at work is handled by Network Solutions (yeah yeah, I know, don’t start with me. I inherited them!) We also use netsol’s name servers for all our DNS management.
So, I have entries like:
Host
Record Type
Value
@
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
www
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
secure
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
demo
A
aa.bbb.ccc.dd
vpn
A
a.b.c.d
MX
aspmx.l.google.com
cal.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com
mail.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com
(the a.b.c.d groupings just represent various “real” IP addresses of my servers. You can see from the MX and CNAME [...]
Mobile Themed
27.Jan.08 | 1 Comment
With the help of Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition plugin and an hour or so of theme hacking, I’m pleased to announce that the Solo Tech blog is now much more mobile friendly. (long time readers may remember I did this almost 2 years ago. For some reason, I had disabled it though…)
Here’s the home [...]
Picknik Plugin?
23.Jan.08 | Leave a Comment
So who’s going to write a nice WordPress Picknick plugin? There is an API…
Would be slick to see on the Write Post page, don’t you think? Upload an image and edit in place.


