The Progress Bar

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!Today’s post centers around how difficult it is to [...]

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Seems several of my sidebar modules have been blown away, or I can’t find them, or the plug-in powering them isn’t working with 2.5. Very smooth upgrade otherwise. No more Subversion updates! The new Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin works almost flawlessly- it didn’t know my wordpress install was in a subdirectory, which was easy enough [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 preview is in the house.

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a [...]

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Busy week. Jury duty, lots of client work and to top it off I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 and getting tags working again.  New template is  installed, need to figure out what’s going in the sidebars to balance them out. It’s times like this I wish I was a designer.

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For most people, blogging is writing for a few minutes a day and going on to their other tasks. I like working on the blog system and tweaking templates and doing custom installs for clients as much as I enjoy the blogging process itself.
I’ve been blogging since 2002. I started on Movable Type and stayed [...]

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I just added about 10 very cool links to a draft post in Wordpress and deleted it by mistake. Where is the undo feature? It’s times like this that I miss Movable Type and Ecto.
You would probably like the flexible OLED screens. As for the rest, you probably knew about Compete’s new API and most [...]

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Maintaining your permalink structure when moving between blog platforms is incredibly important. When I moved one of my blogs from Movable Type to Wordpress, I decided to get rid of day of the /day/ directory and the trailing .php suffix, which WP doesn’t use by default. In doing so, I wanted to make sure that [...]

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I’ve been having trouble logging back into Wordpress after deleting cookies for my blog domain.
Signing in with valid credentials through wp-login.php reloads the same page. Notice the url redirect in the address bar.

It turns out that every time I delete cookies associated with my blog domain in Firefox on my Mac the domain is added [...]

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Upgraded to 2.1. Ability to subscribe TheProgressBar RSS feed and Comment Feed fixed.

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Took me a while to figure out why Ecto wasn’t downloading posts. turns out Wordpress 2.1 has a bug. Fix via NSLog();

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