With 2010 around the corner, it seems like as good a time as any to update the look and feel of this blog to something a little less … noob. As a result, I’ve spent the bettter part of the afternoon putting together this design and making the whole thing look as professional as possible, [...]
12.27.09 | Development, Featured | Jason
It seems that all is not well in the 2.9 release of WordPress. There’s a small problem being reported by a number of people where scheduled posts fail to publish and instead report “Missed schedule” on the Admin panel. Although I no longer use scheduled posts as often as before, this is clearly not cool [...]
12.25.09 | Internet, Technology | Jason
With the recent number of Fail Whale’s on Twitter recently, there have been an increasing number of people that are looking to archive their Tweets elsewhere. Aside from the obvious benefit of keeping our messages regardless of what happens to this online service in the future, we can easily make every one of our Tweets [...]
08.16.09 | Development, Plugins | Jason
This post is the second in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time.
Yesterday I showed one possible way to host multiple WordPress blogs with a single installation and today I will show you an easy way to [...]
05.5.09 | Internet, Technology | Jason
This post is going to be the first in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time.
It’s a common problem: We have dozens of WordPress installations on our web server(s), and updating each and every site when a [...]
05.4.09 | Development, Internet, Technology | Jason
It seems like forever, even though it’s been little more than 36 hours, but j2fi.net is finally back online after running into some issues with WordPress exploits and illegal background processes. The problem was completely my fault, as I had let a subdomain with an older version of WordPress sit idle for far too long. [...]
It’s interesting how something seems so simple at first, and then baloons into a seemingly-impossible task within hours. Take, for example, my recent decision to make some database modifications to the core WordPress tables. While this seemed relatively straight-forward, it is really anything but.
What’s interesting, though, is that WordPress can work with a [...]
11.29.08 | Internet, Technology | Jason
For the sake of expediency I’ll keep this post short and sweet.
Over the last few days I’ve been working pretty heavily with the back-end of WordPress in an effort to relieve some of the bloating that I’ve seen take place and it got me to thinking: why not just create a new database structure?
Looking at [...]
11.26.08 | Internet, Technology | Jason
Despite my seemingly endless criticisms of the platform, WordPress is still one of the easiest and most versatile platforms available for companies and individuals who want to host their own website. That said, one criticism that many people have had over the last few years involves the number of hoops a person must go [...]
07.27.08 | Internet, Technology | Jason
I didn’t think it was going to happen … but I’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. It wasn’t easy, and I’ve been swearing like an Irishman as issue after issue was uncovered when I started to bring all of my data over. What was the root cause of all my [...]
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