Moved the blog from killallhumans.ca to petermblair.com, and in turn broke everything. After going into the DB’s backend, and updating all of the URL’s from all of the posts, and changing the htaccess mod_rewrite rules, everything seems to be working again. I think. Well, I guess I should upgrade to wordpress 3.0 now… Moved the [...]
Just upgraded wordpress to version 2.9.2, installed a new theme, and added the following to my .htaccess to get rid of my site’s landing page. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?killallhumans.ca$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?killallhumans.ca$ RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog/ [L]
It seems like wordpress plugins is the gateway drug of online marketers/promoters/bloggers etc. I try to keep my installed plugin set minimal (currently the only plugins installed are ReCaptcha, a software-syntax-formatter, a youtube embedder, and most recently ShareThis). There are plenty of websites that promote useful plugins, but I urge people to keep their plugin [...]
Many people dont. It’s unfortunate, but the incentive to create malicious software that exploits the wordpress software (this blog runs on it) is frightening. Contrast that to the number of blog maintainers who understand how to upgrade their software and actually take the time to do it! It’s a simple task to upgrade your wordpress [...]
A good discussion here ( http://www.optiniche.com/blog/117/wordpress-trackback-tutorial/ ) steps through the reasons for using these and how its done.