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I’ve just upgraded a few wordpress sites, and it all went well, except for the fact that it didn’t. This site was easy and quick – I’m impressed with how polished the wordpress experience is. I uploaded the new files, visited wp-admin, and wordpress did it’s thing. Sweet! Changed the theme, realised it didn’t support widgets, so added some code which let it do so, and voila. Done.

Then I did the same for a client’s site, except once the whole upgrade was done, her site was full of characters like

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More and more people are taking open source content managers and building sites with them. The usual suspects are Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Here is an article from the April Adobe newsletter that gives a basic overview of these three (as well as XOOPS and CMS Made Simple) and provides a recommendation for the most flexible, scalable system which also has an “enthusiastic user community” – I leave it to you to read the article and discover which one wins

Technorati Tags: CMS Made Simple, Drupal, Joomla, open source, Wordpress, XOOPS

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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is out and I picked up a copy from my local dealer. Since I’m running Parallels Desktop on my Mac it’s a simple task to create a new instance of Parallels along with a new Virtual Machine (I usually use “Debian”) and go ahead with the install. Except during my install it couldn’t detect my cd-rom drive and so the install halted. Thanks to some tips I found that the solution is to simply change the OS Type to Solaris and the OS Version to Solaris 10. Once it’s installed change it back to “Debian” or “Other Linux Kernel 2.6″.

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Tim has made some wicked wordpress themes and details how to install plogger on wordpress. I got it up and running without too much trouble. The process is:

• Download plogger.
• Unzip it into your wordpress folder under something meaningful like /plogger or /gallery and follow the installation instructions in the readme.
• Grab a copy of the plogger wordpress plugin and put it in your Wordpress plugins directory.
• Log into Wordpress and enable the plugin, then edit its options. The table prefix is “_plogger”.
• Edit the plogger index.php file and paste the following into it:
  <?php require(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);
  require(“gallery.php”); ?>
  <?php get_header(); ?>
  <div class=”content”>
  <?php the_gallery_head(); ?>
  <?php the_gallery(); ?>
  </div><?php get_sidebar(); ?>
  <?php get_footer(); ?>

That’s it!

Technorati Tags: plogger, wordpress, gallery

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