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How to deploy HyperDB

Ever since I’ve started experimenting with HyperDB I thought that once I’ve got enough servers at my disposal, and if I ever figure out how to setup MySQL replication I’d bring the two together. I believe that day has finally come: HyperDB is now deployed across over 60 sites I’m taking care of. I want [...]

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Calling all Forum Beta Testers

Great News: I’ve been meaning to add a general WordPress forum to this site for a while, but none of the options seemed to work well for what I wanted to do. All I needed was a simple discussion forum, integrated into WordPress – I really didn’t want to mess around with phpBB or the [...]

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Snapshot Backup 2.0.1 Update: Let’s try this again, folks…

I’ve just released Snapshot Backup 2.0.1 – the exact same version as 2.0, however this time it includes all the files it actually needs… Let me explain what happened earlier: So there I was, having tested the latest version of Snapshot Backup 2.0 for several weeks, all is well at my end, and I decided [...]

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Disk Space Pie Chart – Version 0.4

I’ve committed a new version of Disk Space Pie Chart today. This maintenance release fixes a display bug in the Dashbaord Widget in WordPress 3.2. Thanks to Dan from IFSA Butler for bringing this to my attention. While I was at it I’ve also fixed some of the internal workings of this plugin: Fixed dashboard [...]

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Snapshot Backup 2.0 RC1 – Ready for Testing

I’ve been slaving away at the keyboard again. It’s been too long, and you’ve all been patiently waiting for your favourtive backup plugin to do something while you sleep. Say hello to Snapshot Backup 2.0 which can now create backups while you sleep. Here’s a list of new features: Automation: create backups every hour, every [...]

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How to make Get The Image only use embedded images

If you’re a Theme Developer you probably heard of Justin Tadlocks incredible plugin already – for those of you who don’t, let me introduce Get The Image to you. It’s THE way to extract images from your posts and insert them any way you like in your custom made theme. It does this by checking [...]

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How to style the Motion Theme for WordPress

I had a closer look at this theme the other day when I made some upgrades on Nadia’s website. I really like the look and feel of Motion but I felt certain things were missing from this wonderful theme, such as drop down submenus. Let’s take a look at some tweaks and how you can [...]

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Jetpack: the new WordPress.com Stats Plugin

If you’re running the WordPress.com Stats Plugin on several sites (like me) then you may have noticed that it stopped working recently. This is a known issue and it’s being resolved soon. If you can’t live without your stats in the meantime then read on. Help is at hand in the form of a brand [...]

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How to split a Post into several Pages

Sometimes you have posts that exceed 500 words by a landslide. At the same time, you don’t what to split your content into several posts for the sake of your readers and commenters. The easy solution is to use multiple pages per post – also known as Pagination. You may have seen this feature on [...]

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Workshop: How to post Source Code in your Comments

In this workshop I’ll show you how you can make source code show up in your comments. I’ll also show you how to format it so it looks different to ordinairy text. By default, WordPress strips out most HTML tags for security reasons. That’s a good thing, however if you’d like to share some HTML [...]

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Disk Space Pie Chart Plugin

I’ve written a Plugin that shows your free and used server space as a funky Pie Chart in your backend. It also shows a percentage bar in your WordPress dahsboard. Following the success of my server space script for one of my clients, I thought it would be great to use it under WordPress. This [...]

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Upgrading WordPress… FAILED!

We’ve all been there many times: a new WordPress Version comes out, you think you’re upgraded in under a minute, and then this message comes up to tell you that you’re not: WordPress Upgrade Failed! Bugger… Let me talk you through the many many possibilities for this and what you can do to make this [...]

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Why does WordPress ask for your FTP Details

So you’re upgrading a Plugin, a Theme or the WordPress Core. Thanks to the built-in upgrade function it’s a piece of cake for most of us. But have you noticed that on some installations WordPress will ask for your FTP credentials, while on others it doesn’t? I certainly have, and I wondered how this could [...]

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The Drunkjeans.com / Roundstorm.com Hack and how to get rid of it

Saturday morning a couple of my sites were hacked by something I’ve not found a lot of info about. I’ll call it The Drunkjeans Hack. I’ve also found this being inserted from other domains (see below). Some idiot has inserted a piece of code into the main index.php file that looks like this: <script type=”text/javascript” [...]

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