So, just a few months after Wordpress 2.5 was released, we now have 2.6! I checked this version on this blog’s little brother (test.chrismerriman.com), making sure there were no repeats of the problems encountered with 2.5 and 2.5.1 last time around. No immediate issues to be found, so I’ve updated 19 sites in very little [...]

If you are currently looking at the range of sitemap generators specifically available for WordPress blogs, then I can recommend the (free) Google XML Sitemaps plugin - you can download it at www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator . In case you are interested/concerned, it does actually generate valid sitemaps that can be read by MSN, Ask and Yahoo as [...]

Or more specifically, the possibility of an issue with the Exec PHP Widget and the plugin auto upgrade feature found in WP 2.5
When upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.5, I thought I had tested all plugins thoroughly, however after I auto-upgraded the Executable PHP Widget a couple of days ago, it appears that my widgets [...]

I’ll post details on the fix I found for randomizing the tagline on this site later, but just in case things go wrong, and no new posts appear for a while, I about to upgrade this blog to Wordpress 2.5, as I think there are no remaining problems preventing me from doing so.
Famous last words [...]

Looks like I spoke a little too soon…
I noticed that Bad Behavior 2.0.13 had been updated by the plugin’s authors, and so attempted an automatic upgrade (part of the improvements with WP 2.5), and was greeted with
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bad-behavior.2.0.14.zip
Unpacking the update
Deactivating the plugin
Removing the old version of the plugin
Installing the latest version
Installation failed
Not [...]

As previously mentioned, I upgraded the test blog brother of this site to WP 2.5 recently, and other than a few small issues all went well. I therefore decided to take the plunge and upgrade a further eighteen of my sites yesterday. All seemed to go well, with no themes suddenly broken, and as I’d [...]

As previously mentioned, I have used my sacrificial lamb test blog to check how things would go if I upgrade all my other blogs to Wordpress 2.5 . From previous experience I know that updating WP can cause problems, and if core parts of your site rely on certain plugins, if the plugins no longer [...]

[UPDATE AT END OF POST]
OK, I have upgraded my test blog site to Wordpress 2.5, to see if any problems occur with my current plugins etc., before committing myself to upgrading my 19 other blogs.
It would appear that a couple of things may be of interest to others…
1) Using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, the [...]

All posts, pages, comments and even internal trackbacks have now been updated to reflect the new permalink structure recently adopted at this blog. Sometime I’ll try googling the old link style, and leaving comments on the relevant sites/blogs, but internally at least, there should be no more bad links leading to a 404 type results [...]

I recently got around to creating the required SQL tables for this plugin to function. I had a problem though, where I was not being e-mailed the results when somebody found my site from searching for a specific term. I tried a few different approaches, but couldn’t get the code to work.
oooops.
I actually got around [...]

I meant to post about this a while back, but as you may have already guessed from the title, the WordPress software that this blog is based on is now available in the Kazakh language. Whilst it is likely that 99.9%§ of people who will be installing WordPress on a server are already able to [...]

Quick explanation for those of you who thought I had given up on posting here, or had no internet access - I am currently still deep in the process of setting up my other 18 sites. They were originally created as static (well almost, too long a story to recount here) pages, and whenever I [...]

As observant readers will have noticed, this blog has been missing a tagline§ since I moved hosts and reinstalled WordPress from scratch. Part of the problem was that I couldn’t decide which to use, having already cycled through a few on the old version of the blog. I am now trying out a new plugin [...]

I have just noticed the link in my dashboard, informing me that a security update has been released for Wordpress. See the Wordpress dev blog post on this subject here. Basically, a security flaw was discovered, where IF you had registration enabled on your blog, members could theoretically hack in and edit other people’s posts. [...]

So, the transfer process from my old host to this new one (Bluehost) is complete, and I took the opportunity to basically build this blog up from the ground again. With the amount of plugins I tested over the last 18 months, there was an awful lot of clutter left in the SQL tables, and [...]

I am way too tired to write a proper post right now, but this is just a short message to let people know that I have made some sizeable changes to this blog’s setup, and so if things look odd/don’t work in the next day or so, please do be patient.
Any old links to posts [...]

I am not publicly posting the solution that worked just yet, as I need to check any security implications from the action I took.
The short version is that I can now access the admin section of this blog.
Whilst I’m wittering on about things 98% of my readers couldn’t give a flying funk about, this [...]

As I mentioned earlier on, I have now instigated a few changes in the way this blog is coded, to enable Wordpress to be upgraded to 2.3.1
As this blog has a few features that only are supposed to work within certain categories, I previously used the King Text plugin; with which you can easily stipulate [...]

Long term readers of this site will know I have been unable to upgrade from Wordpress 2.1.3, as I use a couple of plugins that do not work with WP2.2+.
I finally decided to try out a course of action recommended in a forum, which means I have now been able to uninstall the plugins, write [...]

This morning I was attempting to check how the site was doing, when I was presented with the following error
HTTP Error 403
Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for (ACTUAL URL REMOVED) on this server.
Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See [...]