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Hmm…. It looks like all my posts lost their Categories and Tags. Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup on the database.
Tags are back, and older posts have their Categories back, but my list for categories for new posts is gone now. Even going to Manage > Categories shows a blank list. I think my [...]

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I use Akismet to block comment spam. For one of the very few times in the last few years of using it, I looked through the comments it caught and I found 3 comments out of 60 or so that weren’t spam.
After a bit of searching on Akismet false positives I am now convinced that [...]

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I just noticed an error with WordPress 2.5.1, which I recently upgraded to.
It says I have 4 comments waiting for approval, but when I go to the screen to approve them it says there are “No comments awaiting moderation… yet.”

I have searched Google, I found one suggestion to make sure the comment_date_gmt field is in [...]

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If you are using Firefox 3, such as we are, some parts of this site are may not rendering properly. None of the videos are showing up. They show up with Internet Explorer or if you use IE Tab on Firefox. Hopefully a fix will be found… Not sure if it is a Wordpress issue [...]

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Not sure what the problem is yet, but if you click on an individual post title, or the More link, it doesn’t work. Even on ones I knew to be working not too long ago. For some reason, I am getting a 404 error when WordPress tries to go to an individual post.
The Permalink structure [...]

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I was thinking of using Joomla! for another website that I was thinking of building, since that website wouldn’t be a full blog. Joomla! is more of a CMS, where WordPress is focused more on blogs, but works okay as a CMS. Joomla! can do blogs well enough however, and overall is more versatile than [...]

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Okay, so I have been playing with Intense Debate (ID) for today. Most of the problems I have run into are either problems with compatibility with my theme, or other plugins.
For example, my theme used to put a little gif on the sidebars for list items, however, I had to turn that off for now [...]

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The text for this website seems to be funky. For some reason the white background is missing, I am working on it.
EDIT: As you may be able to tell, it is fixed now. Seems WordPress doesn’t like iframes, which is what the default XBox Live gamer tag used to display itself… Thankfully there was a [...]

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I am working on fixing the theme I am using, GStyles (available here) and trying to make it work with WordPress 2.3.
So far I have fixed index.php and singles.php.
Here is an original code snippet from singles.php (sorry, the code runs over the edge, the theme is fixed width so it runs over... I might make [...]

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With WordPress 2.3 doing away with Ultimate Tag Warrior and having tags built in, it lost the ability to do suggest tags for you. Christine From The Internet, the author of UTW, now presents Tag Suggest Thing, which brings the tag suggestions back to WordPress 2.3.

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I managed to find the new repository for Scripturizer, and it does work in Wordpress 2.1, which the older version did not for some reason. I am using version 1.6 Developer. A few changes to make...
Line 75:
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:

<h2><?php _e('Scripturizer 1.5a', 'Scripturizer'); ?></h2>

Needs changed to say:
PLAIN TEXT
PHP:

<h2><?php _e('Scripturizer 1.6 Dev', 'Scripturizer'); ?></h2>

This is a [...]

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As you can see, I am back online. I think the total downtime was less than 30 minutes, mostly to wait for my FTP client to delete all the old files from the server and than upload all the new ones. I am not sure why the deleting of the files took so long.
Things that [...]

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While upgrading the site, I had to turn of Akismet for a few minutes, in that time 2 comment spams slipped through. In the short time it has been installed over all, it has caught 14,467 comment/trackback spams. I have to say, I am glad I am not doing the spam tracking myself, since it [...]

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I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 but kept getting the following error:
302 Found
The document has moved here.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
That is the error in Firefox, apparently the error in IE shows up as:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
- [...]

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Calling all Wordpress Widget experts, I am trying to write my own widget, but I am not having luck. I get it to show up in the plugins and activate it, but it doesn't show on the widget list.
I know about Chris Johnson's Tag Cloud Widget, but the cloud doesn't show for one thing, and [...]

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I edited the PHP on the WP-Amazon Plugin for WordPress. I wanted to achieve two things. One, when adding an image, I wanted the text to follow it. Two, I wanted to have it display the name of the product in the title attribute of the link, that is, when one hovers over the link, [...]

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You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that the more entries a tag has, the bigger it is. (Presently they are in order of number of posts, but they may move to alphabetical later on.)
Since [...]

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Open Letter to WordPress Theme Designers is an excellent, well, exactly what it says, open letter to theme designers. I would add to that, don't hard code the date/time stamp into the theme. If you have a specific way you want it to be seen, make it the default in the theme's option page, which [...]

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EDIT: The issue below will be fixed in Canvas.
Just a quick little thing I learned while making some blocks for Canvas today.
When putting in the description, if you use an apostrophe, you will need to escape it. That is, you will need to put a backslash in front of it.
For example, I made a block [...]

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Canvas, as I mentioned before, is a new plug-in for WordPress. It allows for the easy modification of specialized Canvas themes (as of this witting there are only 2 publicly available). What is basically does is takes the concept of sidebar widgets and takes it to the extreme and makes nearly everything on the page [...]

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