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Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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Short Detour with the Testing New WordPress Series – Database Issue

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. Local is 5.0.45

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Testing New WordPress Versions Part 3: The Files

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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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

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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 series

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