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WordPress 3.3 RC3

Daniel Smith — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:43:40 +0000

So I decided to upgrade to WordPress 3.3 a little early (its on RC3). So far…. so good, and it looks like it’s going to be another solid release from the WordPress team. I have been thinking that it is about time I get involved in the WordPress community as developer, seeing as I have been using the software now for years. Not sure what I am going to do first, but I plan on building something.

Not much else new to report. But eventually I will update this thing more frequently.

-Daniel

MacHeist Loot

Daniel Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:58:54 +0000

So I am posting to my WordPress blog from MacJournal which is one of the products I received when I purchased MacHeist Nano 2. Pretty cool product, and it can post directly to my blog. It is awesome! Pretty cool products in this run of MacHeist. Tweetie 2 for Mac is actually bundled into it, when the alpha is released I will be getting a copy!

Where did you get my profile image?

Daniel Smith — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:55:46 +0000

I have been asked numerous times how after a person posts a comment on my blog, do I have a profile picture for them. If you are really into social media or blogs you probably already know the answer, but if you don’t, I will be glad to explain it to you.

The answer is a service called Gravatar or a “globally recognized avatar”. It is a service that allows you to associate an image of yourself (or anything else for that matter) to your email address (or multiples). So when a site like mine sees your email address on a comment we can get your current image from Gravatar.

Gravatar was created by the fine people at Automattic who also contribute to WordPress (the greatest blog engine, ever!)

So if you are into social media, or even if you are not, go ahead and sign up for Gravatar and make sure that your profile images are your own.

WordPress 2.8

Daniel Smith — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:01:40 +0000

Wordpress 2.8 is out and beside a few plugin incompatibilities I think it is a great release. There seems to be a lot of negative attention to some of the bugs due to plugins on the WordPress.org boards but I found the 1 offending plugin and disabled it until it was fixed. Besides that, now it is time to update my theme to take advantage of all of the new WordPress goodies! Thanks guys!

Awesome Song

Daniel Smith — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:32:05 +0000

So I was asked if I wanted to beta test a Grooveshark plugin for WordPress. Obviously I said yes, so as to not bore you with anything else, here is a really good song!.

Thanks Grooveshark!

WordPress Easy Update

Daniel Smith — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:41:14 +0000

So I finally took the time out to change my WordPress install to be a checkout from Subversion (SVN). This will eliminate the headache of copying files to my website when I want to update to the latest version of WP. Following WordPress’ upgrade procedures (even though I know how to use SVN very well) I was able to backup my old site and move my modification over to an SVN checked out copy of WordPress. Since I use this blog regularly I decided to not checkout the trunk which would be the latest and greatest version of WP, and might or probably does contain bugs. I opted for the tag of the latest stable revision of WP (2.6.1). When I decided to update next all I will do is run the command:

$ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/SOMEVERSION/ .

and I will be all set! For anyone looking for directions to do this, even if you are a newbie to subversion, WordPress has a great tutorial on it for you: Updating WordPress using Subversion.