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WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a easy by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you give it. Unfortunately, the latest release doesn’t work very well, by itself or on Wordpress 2.5. Watch out for my post on fixing Wordpress 2.5 issues.
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Wordpress Suicide is a fun, yet really useful plugin. I had a requirement to clean out a WP 2.5 blog because a client had really screwed up with the taxonomy directly in the database. I didn’t want to erase the entire blog because that’d be too easy. I stumbled over Wordpress Suicide and had great fun using it. It makes clearing a blog of all it’s life quite enjoyable!

There is a little known feature in Wordpress 2.5 called “Secret Key“. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you probably won’t even know this feature exists as it only appears in clean installs where you have a brand new wp-config.php. (more…)

A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.

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If you check the Page Rank of http://bloke.org against http://bloke.org/index.php, which are both, to a human, obviously the same page you’ll see two different results. My domain carries a PR3 whilst the latter carries a PR0.

We know they are both the same, but do the crawlers? No, they don’t. (more…)

I really like Patrick Altoft’s Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress. I rolled it out on many of my sites and more of my client’s sites. I even used it on this site.

But my love for it was prematurely cut short. (more…)

I’d like remove all references Wordpress plugins put into my HTML code.
Am I selfish? Or just prudent about security?

Whilst I am in no way against plugin authors advertising themselves in the HTML code of any Wordpress blogs I set up (for myself, i9000 Networks, or clients), I still feel a little concerned that the more devious of web users can instantly gain a list of plugins I use, to potentially exploit.

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Saved my ass! The “Permalinks Moved Permanently“, plugin allows you to update your permalink structure without upsetting the search engines. Basically, it intercepts an old permalink, searches for a new post with that slug and does a 301 Redirect.

Clever, eh?