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Fix for fatal errors in Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress 2.5.1

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I’ve just spent two days trying to install Alex King’s brilliant plugin Popularity Contest.  After loads of Google searches and the help of some people much smarter than myself I finally have it running in WordPress 2.5.1.
There were problems with the path the plugin was searching for wp-blog-header.  I found the solution for that on [...]

Make Godaddy a nice place for WordPress to live

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

If you are using Godaddy as a host for your WordPress blog you should take a little time to make sure you have your hosting account configured properly. People who started their hosting plans before 2008 may have older versions of the software that drives WordPress.
To verify your hosting account settings go ahead and [...]

CNN News RSS plugin for WordPress running up against Godaddy firewall

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I found a cool CNN News RSS feed plugin for WordPress.  CNN has about 50 RSS feeds to choose from.  I thought a bit of technology news on the sidebar would be a nice addition to my blog.  The install is as easy as WordPress plugins get.
Just upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate [...]

I took a few steps to harden the security on this WordPress 2.5 install

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

After creating my database with Godaddy and uploading the WordPress 2.5 package to the server I took some time with the wp-config.php file.  There is an addition to the wp-config that those who are upgrading from an older version of WordPress and have just copied there old wp-config over might miss.  They have added an [...]

Whoah, that was not as easy as expected

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I’ve installed Wordpress at least seven times and the install I just endured was tough.  I’ve installed on Godaddy before which made me a bit over-confident in my ability to speed install the Wordpress 2.5 package.  I just wanted to pick the most secure and optimized settings possible this time.
Doing a hardened install of [...]

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