Andrei Neculau

My series plugin, that proved great so far, started to fail on me a bit after installing Wordpress 2.6, but this evening I found some fixes.

One of the bugs is that the administration menus don’t link correctly any longer.

Open orgSeries.php, and replace the function series_organize_options (line 156) with the following:

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Wordpress 2.6 introduces revisions to each post.

That actually caused my series plugin to break down, but that was fixed by me with two edits.

But the main part is that.. weirdly.. the Wordpress team didn’t put an option to disable these, as they can create useless data records. I, for one, like the feature, but I don’t see myself using that.

It’s neat for publishers and multi-user blogging, when people review and edit and add photos, etc.. one person at a time. But when there’s just one person doing it.. it’s close to useless. I couldn’t care less how this post looked like one day or one month ago..

So the only way to turn the feature off is to edit your wp-config.php file and put

define ('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);

But what about those revisions left in your database? Several posts look as if they found the true answer, but it’s one of those “The one who laughs last, laughs best” situations. Didn’t those people hear about post meta? Or about post terms (tags, categories, or series?! )?¹

Here’s the proper way to clean your MySQL DB for Wordpress from post revisions.

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When you switch from a wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted one, you sort of miss the statistical information that you had from Wordpress - number of visitors, most viewed posts, referrers, clicks, etc.

One plugin does just that. It allows you to have the same interface, same Wordpress quality (the interface is the exact same one, hosted at wordpress.com) by registering your blog in their database.

The only downside to it, is that it tries to load the interface in an inner frame, which not only looks bad, but is a bit uneasy for the user.

So I decided for some code changes: instead of loading it with iframe, why not just redirect to it? You can then simply go back to your self-hosted dashboard through the Dashboard link.

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I wanted to start a category regarding Wordpress plugins’ reviews, code changes/improvements along with my tiny plugins.

Unfortunately I’m starting with the left foot, since this post will also be part of the Junk category.

One useful plugin with 9 lines of coding allows you to make a page or a post to redirect the visitor to another location.

I installed it for future use - I will soon change the Photos page to be a media gallery and I didn’t want the gallery to be embedded in the blog.

After installation: Buff! Warnings about a file being required but not found. And I start to think: what a simple plugin and still with bugs!

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