Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

This marks the 900th post on j2fi.net and, rather than do something predictable like look back at some of the more popular posts or anything like that, I thought it would be more interesting to share my experiences on upgrading a group of WordPress 2.9.x sites to a single WordPress 3.0 site.

To celebrate the day Reiko and I officially find a new home in Chiba, I’ve redesigned the site from the ground up! Although still dependent on WordPress, it’s now 23% slimmer in terms of bandwidth, and the JavaScript isn’t a mess anymore.

With 2010 around the corner, it seems like as good a time as any to update the look and feel of this blog to something a little less … noob.  As a result, I’ve spent the bettter part of the
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It seems that all is not well in the 2.9 release of WordPress. There’s a small problem being reported by a number of people where scheduled posts fail to publish and instead report “Missed schedule” on the Admin panel.  Although
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With the recent number of Fail Whale’s on Twitter recently, there have been an increasing number of people that are looking to archive their Tweets elsewhere. Aside from the obvious benefit of keeping our messages regardless of what happens to
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This post is the second in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time. Yesterday I showed one possible way to host multiple
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This post is going to be the first in a short series outlining how anyone can take measures to simplify WordPress installations on shared or private hosting solutions, improving security and reducing maintenance time. It’s a common problem: We have
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It seems like forever, even though it’s been little more than 36 hours, but j2fi.net is finally back online after running into some issues with WordPress exploits and illegal background processes.  The problem was completely my fault, as I had
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It’s interesting how something seems so simple at first, and then baloons into a seemingly-impossible task within hours. Take, for example, my recent decision to make some database modifications to the core WordPress tables. While this seemed relatively straight-forward, it
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For the sake of expediency I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Over the last few days I’ve been working pretty heavily with the back-end of WordPress in an effort to relieve some of the bloating that I’ve seen take
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Despite my seemingly endless criticisms of the platform, WordPress is still one of the easiest and most versatile platforms available for companies and individuals who want to host their own website. That said, one criticism that many people have had
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I didn’t think it was going to happen … but I’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. It wasn’t easy, and I’ve been swearing like an Irishman as issue after issue was uncovered when I started to bring
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