PHP5 and WordPress 2.8 (It’s not safe to rely on the system’s time zone)
After installing another test rig for WordPress (2.8) on Snow Leopard, there is a weird error. *** Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still [...]
wp-config.php problem on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.1)
The usual 5 minute installation of WordPress 2.8.x is a bit weird on Snow Leopard (10.6) —right after downloading http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip, unzipped it in ~/Sites/wpstaging (that’s the name I chose to my WordPress development environment), created the database in MySQL, GRANTed the privilege of a wordpress user so that it can have access to the database, [...]
Decided to continue working on the WordPress Stubborn theme
Stubborn theme found a home in github—I’ve always wanted to try github and learn git anyway—so this is perfect fit, I get to continue working on the Stubborn theme while using git for configuration management. There are bits and pieces of the Stubborn theme which, right now, from hindsight, I don’t like as much as [...]
Making a copy of Live WordPress posts in a local environment
Could be done using PHPMyAdmin and exporting the wordpress database — but this means you know your way around SQL and you know how to read SQL errors in case you run into them when you are re-inserting the exported wp_posts and other tables into your local setup of WordPress; or you could use the [...]
A bit of a requirements process for WordPress theming
You could think “Requirements gathering for WordPress theming? What?”–you could think that, that’s what I thought too at first. However, building a WordPress theme, which is not necessarily for blog purposes, I quickly slowly realized that when you start using WordPress for purposes other than a blog, you’re right down a different alley. You are [...]
Where’s the switch button on WordPress.com stats
Wish I did not upgrade the WordPress.com stats today–too quick to pull the trigger. As a result, the switch button on blog stats is now gone. I’m referring to this button. That pic is a screenshot from KindaWannaDoThat–I am not going to upgrade the WP stats on that one. The switch button is a pretty [...]
Coding the blog front page
The frontpage for the blog or a site is the page which first appears when a web user types in http://www.yourdomainname.com, it is at the top of your page hierarchy. The templating system of WordPress has some established rules which defines what page the user will see, which templates takes precedence over others. At a [...]
Creating a WordPress theme
This is a work in progress. The post is not complete–just in case you landed on this page (which I doubt because I’m inside the Google sandbox), just in case, I wrote this post, and made it sticky too, because it’s a note for myself. This post constitutes a list of things I will tackle [...]
How to install WordPress
This guide is intended for local installations of WordPress, not that there’s a lot of difference if you will install this on your live server–installing WordPress on a live server is much easier than on a local workstation, because your hosting service probably will make it available for your via the Fantastico tool–it doesn’t need [...]
WordPress 2.8 upgrade
WordPress 2.8 has been released last 10.June.2009 for the public, although it has been available on beta for some time now. You can read the release notes and feature highlights from codex.wordpress.org it’s too numerous to list down here. In case you are very tempted to try it out, it is the reason I wrote [...]
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