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WordPress FAQ: What is the best way to upgrade a WordPress 1.5 blog to WordPress 2.1?
Okay… my personal Blog (the one the leaf has been removed from) is an older version of WP (waaaaaay back to 1.5 something) and has been seriously re-designed by Khaled Abou Alfa from 9rules (a dam* good man btw). I would love to upgrade it to a current version but there is where I lose…
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WordPress FAQ: User Roles Confusion
I’ve seen the roles list in the User page. But what’s the difference between an Author and a Contributor? There are five built in roles in WP2.0+. These roles, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber compartmentalize most of the groups of functionality in WordPress. Naturally, Administrators can do everything. If you own a multi-author blog,…
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Another Month, Another Trip
Tomorrow morning, bright and early and weather allowing, I’ll be boarding a plane to Toronto for a week-long trip. There’s a lot planned for this meeting and I personally feel like this is our most important onsite yet. For one, almost the entire b5media team will be present. Secondly, we have strategy meetings and a…
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WordPress FAQ: How do I Move my blog to a new host?
What is the process for moving my WordPress blog to another host? As the technology manager at b5media, my team is often asked to migrate a blog to our cluster. Usually, when that happens, I ask a bunch of relevant questions: Is the blog a WordPress blog? If not, what platform is it? Are we…
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WordPress FAQ: How Do I Fix the Blogroll Category Issue in WordPress 2.1
In WordPress 2.0.x there was a simple facility to bulk change the link categories for numbers of links. Unless I’m mistaken, that appears to have been dropped from 2.1.x. I’ve just imported 52 links to what’s now called the Blogroll (it used to be “œLinks”) and have had to add the link category individually to…
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WordPress FAQ: How Do I Use Child Pages More Effectively?
Hidden child pages on front page of site in new version of wordpress… any simple tutorial on making this happen or any plans on making this a function of wordpress in the future? It would really help wordpress have better functionality for those of us who also use it as a CMS. <snip> I know…
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Google Search on Another Level
Apparently, Google is good at search. :-)
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With Apple/EMI, Music Can Now Move into the 21st Century
In a move that demonstrates questionable sanity on the part of Apple and EMI, the companies released joint statements on the day after April Fools Day. Indeed, several folks I’ve spoken to since then have admitted thinking the announcement about the entire EMI music catalog going DRM-less in iTunes was nothing but phony. However, it’s…
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SuicideFan.com Callers Requested
I just posted this up on Twitter but as we only have an hour, I’m posting the request here as well: Now taking callers to the SuicideFan.com sports podcast. Call in @ (443) 450-4646 and leave your comments or questions. Next hour only.
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A little Something Musical and Thought Provoking to Think About This Week
In this video, I share some of my thoughts on faith provoked by this post and this week of Easter. I don’t generally share my faith in this venue. I find it to be a private and personal issue. However, I felt compelled to share some of my thoughts and a song on this video.