Tag: wordpress
How I learned to stop being a Cowboy and Love the SVN
24th March
Cowboy, you been barking up the wrong tree. If you’re editing your site, and/or your clients site live. Well then buddy your doing it wrong. Don’t get defensive, and don’t be ashamed. Till recently I too was a gun slinging, rope totting Cowboy. I always knew there was a better way to do things, I just didn’t quite understand how. Then at WordCamp NZ 2011 John Ford from automattic mentioned in passing ‘.. that if the hacked site is running on SVN you can just do an svn st and svn diff to see the hacked files..’ Which made me raise an eyebrow. I mean, I’ve used SVN for Plugin development, I’m no self-proclaimed expert but I know enough to run a Plugin on the WordPress Plugin repository but an entire site? HOW? wouldn’t that get messy if you had … Read More »
My Delicious Links (August 17th – August 20th)
20th August
These are My Delicious links for August 17th through August 20th:
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Mangling strings for fun and profit « follow the white rabbit –
New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images « Mark on WordPress –
My Delicious Links (July 17th – August 8th)
8th August
These are My Delicious links for July 17th through August 8th:
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Amazon.com: Test Driven Development: By Example (9780321146533): Kent Beck: Books –
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion « WordPress Codex –
My Delicious Links (July 6th – July 12th)
12th July
These are My Delicious links for July 6th through July 12th:
Source Checkout – bp-e-commerce – Project Hosting on Google Code –
BuddyPress.org → Docs → Make your plugin BuddyPress aware (v1.2) –
Benchmarking WordPress SQL using FirePHP –
From the web ,,,
17th June
From the Web:
WordPress › Custom Post Type UI « WordPress Plugins –
Function Reference/register post type « WordPress Codex –
Template Hierarchy « WordPress Codex –
My Delicious Links (May 13th – June 17th)
17th June
These are My Delicious links for May 13th through June 17th:
Theme Development Checklist « WordPress Codex –
5 tips for using AJAX in WordPress – WordPress Hardcore –
7 Simple and Useful Command-Line Tips | Nettuts+ –
Duplicate a site for testing
17th May
So I’ve been asked how and what I use to duplicate WordPress sites for testing purposes. I do this fairly regularly on my own site and sites I host for clients and friends,, I recently found a new trick using SSH to make the mysql backups too which I’ll go through.
My Delicious Links (March 29th – April 27th)
27th April
These are My Delicious links for March 29th through April 27th:
Setting Up Your Mac For Local Development Using Coda, WordPress & MAMP · Jay Robinson –
Xdebug: Documentation –
How To Create and Apply Image Filters in PHP –
