A new version of Migrate! is now available to download from Github. What does this fix? A few people have reported having problems using the Migrate! script with their local setups as it constantly shows an error message saying “Your current URL is not a valid URL” much like this: Migrate! Was originally very strict [...]

This morning I woke up to announcements of a security upgrade (3.0.4) for WordPress. It is highly recommended that everyone upgrade their installs.

I set to the task of upgrading this and a couple of other websites I look after. All of my sites are on 3.0, but not all of them have seen an update since. Nevertheless I know that upgrading is usually a one click job, and even if you have a more complex setup with massive plugins or theme frameworks like thematic where the order of updating can be important, it usually goes pretty smoothly.

Today is my 25th birthday. It feels like a milestone, something that needs to be marked and celebrated. Scarily it’s lead me to do a little thinking: What have I achieved? Where am I now? Where am I going? Where do I want to go? And other such life-pondering questions.

Have you ever stumbled across the issue where wp_list_pages isn’t spitting out the text you define for link_before and link_after? I came across this some time ago: one minute my lovely pipe bars ‘|’ where there, the next they weren’t. It turns out this is due to the EXTREMELY popular All in One SEO Pack plugin (if you’re not using this you should be!).

Earlier this week I received an email requesting some help with a WordPress install that had been hacked. The site was almost 3 years old and was still running WordPress 2.2. It was quite funny getting to see and play with retro WordPress again, but it had to go.

Generally, when I find something interesting I use twitter & delicious to spread the word, but this morning something in my RSS Reader got me excited enough to decide to write a blog post. Thomas Rabaix has hit the nail on the head with his latest offering: Wording is not a developer job. Not only with his underlying premise, but also with the solution he has developed and offered to the world.