Phillip Cohen has an insightful post about how making your product easier to update, makes it more secure, because it’s not “painful” to update. He compares two of my favorite open source products, WordPress and Mediawiki.

He also included my favorite cartoon character, Calvin …

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I found this great list of clever things you can do with WordPress’ config file:

Many WordPress users know the wp-config.php file as the key to the WordPress database. It is where you set the database name, username, password, and location. [...] But what many users don’t know is that the

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I use the amazing AskApache google-404 plugin on this blog. (It makes my 404 page really helpful – take a look) Recently, I noticed a bunch of mysql errors in my error.log, like this:

[sourcecode language=sql]
WordPress database error Can’t find FULLTEXT index matching the column list for query SELECT ID, post_title, post_content,MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST (‘feed funkypenguin’) AS score FROM wp_posts WHERE MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST (‘feed funkypenguin’) AND post_date

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“The One Ning” (download below) is a WordPress theme that will shamelessly mimic the style of your Ning site, using its CSS stylesheets. It’s based on the excellent theme created by Marcus Schiesser.

I’ve improved on it, given it a cool name, translated it to English, and added an options page.

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LazzyMonk has created a Magento extentions which integrates a WordPress instalallation. At present, his extension only works (cut and paste) with WordPress 2.5.1.

A client hired me to fix an implementation on WordPress 2.6.. here’s how I did it:

(If you don’t want to do it manually, simply download the modified …

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The WP-PHPlist plugin integrates PHPList into your WordPress blog, giving you all the mailing list power of PHPList, within the beautiful styling, theme, and widgets of your WordPress theme.

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