Monthly Archives: February 2008

WordPress Permalinks Just Won’t Enable? Try This.

Have you tried to enable “Pretty Permalinks” but the change doesn’t show up on your blog?

I have, and I’ve successfully used this tactic buried in the WordPress Codex’s Using Permalinks article under the “Fixing .htaccess Generation Issues” section.

This only applies if your web host is using Apache (if you aren’t sure, chances are it is, but you might want to check with your host first).

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The Difference Between Trackbacks and Pingbacks

Ever wondered what the difference is between a trackback and a pingback? They both let you know when someone else has blogged about one of your posts, and the terms seem to be used interchangeably at times — so what’s the deal?

The WordPress Codex’s Introduction to Blogging article has a good explanation:

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The “Undefined wp_die()” WordPress MU Installation Error

Once when installing WordPress MU, after submitting the form in the setup wizard, I got the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_die()

I did extensive research a la Google, and lots of other people seemed to have the problem [1, 2, 3], but I still couldn’t find the answer.

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WordPress 2.3.3 Released

A WordPress security update has been released this morning. From the announcement on the WordPress Development Blog:

WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog.

7 Tips for Choosing a WordPress Theme

Doing some WordPress theme-hunting? Here’s a checklist of things to look for in a good WordPress theme that’ll hopefully help you narrow down the choices:
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