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WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin Part 2

A few days ago I wrote a post about WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin. A common question that I got afterwards was whether or not the maintenance page could be styled. The answer, is yes it can be. After … Continue reading

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WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin

Every so often someone asks a question in the WordPress IRC channel that sparks my interest, and in this case the core maintenance mode functionality was one of those questions. I’ve known for sometime that WordPress has it’s own maintenance … Continue reading

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WordPress Update/Install Clarifications and Requirements

Recently I have been responding to numerous questions about the update/install functionality in WordPress for core, plugins and soon themes. I wanted to take a few moments to make some clarifications and to inform people of the requirements. To update … Continue reading

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Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7

WordPress 2.7 has introduced many new features surrounding comments. Of these is AJAX commenting and threaded comments. To take advantage of the later, you must use a function wp_list_comments instead of the old way of looping through the comments array … Continue reading

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XCache Admin Cannot Login When Using Apache and mod_fcgid

I have been helping a friend setup a dedicated server to host his clients sites on and wanted to make things as streamlined and as easy as possible. To do so I installed Apache 2.2, PHP5, XCache and mod_fcgid. I … Continue reading

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