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Easy Wordpress Upgrade…

October 28th, 2007 2:38 am · 1 Comment

0. Deactivate modules that might conflict/break with upgrade…
1. Have backups of your wordpress files and database..
2. I used ssh for the upgrade, so I untar’d the tar.gz file somewhere.
3. cp -rp wordpress/* ../../blog/ *this copies over all new files to old location, leaving old files intact.
4. somedomain.com/blogdir/wp-admin/upgrade.php - click click done…

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Run shell_exec in Wordpress and Drupal

March 5th, 2007 2:49 am · No Comments

I found this out on accident - use nested includes to use shell_exec in Wordpress and Drupal posts without any issues - I am using the Exec-PHP plugin.
* Tested with Wordpress 2.1.2
* Wordpress: Only works in Blog posts - not in a “page” - the PHP will not work.
* Wordpress: Must use file path, not [...]

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Tags: Drupal · PHP · Wordpress

Worpdress upgrade notes

December 9th, 2006 2:49 am · No Comments

Cygwin is installed on this system, thus the command line work. You can do this with the command console perhaps, but I have never seen the value of learning the windows command line when unix is more mature and stable (since the late 1960’s).
1] Backup the database:
Format: `mysqldump -u -p
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Tags: Cygwin Linux · MySQL · Wordpress

Default Wordpress theme - 1024px wide

October 12th, 2006 8:03 pm · No Comments

Here is the default theme, tweeked from 760px wide to 1024px wide.

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