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WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1

Release Candidate stage means we think we’re done and are about ready to launch this version, but are doing one last check before we officially call it. So take a look, and as always, please check your themes and plugins for compatibility if you’re a developer. Stayed up late tonight, Hammering toward RC1. Now with […]

Using the Facebook Debugger Tool

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I frequently get emails from users of SFC saying that their Like/Send buttons or Publish buttons are putting in weird content, or getting the wrong images, or things like that. Many presume it to be a bug in SFC itself or some kind of plugin incompatibility. Actually, it’s neither of those. You’re running into what I […]

SFC will never get “frictionless sharing”.

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Just a quick note to state this as a fact, in case anybody was wondering (and since I’ve had a few emails about it lately). Under no circumstances will I ever implement Facebook’s “frictionless sharing” in Simple Facebook Connect. If you want such a thing, I recommend using another plugin. Facebook’s frictionless sharing is a […]

WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 Available Now

The march toward 3.3 continues! With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, new […]

FEUT

FEUT

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This site is for a NZ-government agency, FEUT, which manages carbon emissions for government-owned forests. The site design is by McGovern & Associates, and coded into a custom WordPress theme by Urban Legend web. The… 

Wherefore Art Thou, Widgets?

We need your opinion! One of the features we’re adding to WordPress 3.3 (currently in beta 3) is intended to reduce widget pain. Say you’re using Theme A and you have a handful of widgets set up. You switch to Theme B, and it has different widget areas, so you add/remove/edit your widgets. Then you […]

Taking WordPress to War

Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the (20)eleventh year, and in several parts of the world, it is a holiday related to war. In the U.S., where I live, it is Veterans Day, which honors military veterans. In much of Europe, today is Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, commemorating the armistice signed at […]

Random Post snippet

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Wrote this quick WordPress code snippet at WordCamp Louisville. It makes a /random/ URL on your site which redirects to a random post. Thought some people might find it useful. Not a perfect little snippet, but gets the job done. Note the use of the little-used 307 redirect for temporary redirection. This is to make […]

Creating a Site-Specific Snippets Plugin

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If you read “how-to” stuff for WordPress sites around the web, then you frequently run across what many people like to call “snippets”. Short bits of code or functions to do various things. I myself post snippets frequently, usually made up on the fly to solve somebody’s specific problem. One question I get a fair amount […]

Migrated to DreamHost

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If you’re seeing this, then my site has been migrated to DreamHost.
Note that while I set things up, I fully expect the site to break from time to time. So… gimme time to get it working properly.
TODO Step 2: Switch to nginx.