Get old versions of wordpress

For those of you who are not aware, you can get old versions of wordpress from the wordpress release archive. I am one of the few who is not happy with the current release, it breaks some important plugins that are no longer supported so I deleted the newer version (2.3) and restored my old database.

I learned a valuable lesson, never upgrade until you have fully tested new versions of wordpress. Setup a test server on a sub domain or home computer.

Posted by admin 29.Sep.07 Optimize Wordpress Read more Comments (0)

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

What a time saver Keith Dsouza’s Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin is! When I used to update my handful of blogs it required several minutes and I would often forget to turn plugins off and screw other things up during the tedious install. This plugin won 3rd prize in a recent Wordpress plugin competiton and I highly suggest those who have little free time and others not technically inclined to use this plugin to keep yourselves current. I just upgraded this blog in a few seconds. Excellent! [More…]

Posted by admin 28.Aug.07 Wordpress Plugins Read more Comments (0)

Redirect All Wordpress Plugin

Ever delete posts and you do not remember the URLs so you have no way of adding a line to .htaccess to 301 the links to your main domain?

Ever have a screwed up 404.php page that just doesn’t work?

Dax made a cool plugin that I will name Redirect All because he believes that 404’s are a waste of time and uses lots of sware words to describe things.

Add that to the choosing your preferred domain plugins and you are livin’ large.

Thanks Dax!

Posted by admin 26.Feb.07 SEO Plugins Read more Comments (3)