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My friend (and fellow Wordpress nut) Steve recently launched his new site which reports on all things Wordpress.  Highly active in #wordpress irc channel, and it’s because of people like Steve that the Wordpress project is so vibrant.  He and many others like him can be found assisting people with their questions about Wordpress.  Stuck on some PHP?  Wondering what that plugin is you saw on a site? You’ll find your answers floating around in the #wordpress channel.

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Automatic plugin upgrade for Wordpress is a gem of a feature, when it works.  If you’ve tried updating your Wordpress plugins using “upgrade automatically” in the plugins list and are getting error messages like:

“Installation Failed” or “Cannot download update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/”

You might try going to your host and making sure CGI support is enabled.  I’m not sure if this is a must for the automatic upgrade plugin feature in Wordpress to actually work, however, enabling CGI worked for me when recently encountering these errors.

Naturally double check your FTP username and password are correct and relax the CHMOD permissions on /wp-content/upgrade folder.

Heh.  I just got done posting a quick shout to Jean-Baptiste for his excellent Sliding Doors + Wordpress technique when I realized it had happened again: The Visual and HTML tabs on the Wordpress text editor were broken again.  I don’t know of any permanent fixes, but if this happens to you here’s how you can fix the issue temporarily:

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I just got done experimenting with some options for the main menu here at Elite Freelancing. Given I don’t code PHP — I’m more of a cut ‘n’ paste kinda guy when it comes to PHP –  I had to do some digging around to find what I needed. Specifically, I needed a way to add tags into wp_list_categories so that Wordpress.

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So today I’m chippin’ away at a redesign for my rusted art website.  Like most sites I develop, I rolled it out on Wordpress. I seemed to have run a into a bug though, and I’m not sure if this a localized me thing, or a legit gremlin.

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Users of Wordpress 2.6 will know that you can insert captions underneath photos and images within your posts. If any of you have tried to add hyperlinks within a caption, you’ll also know that Wordpress will strip that link faster than a suspected terrorist at LAX when you hit save.

Photo by superbomba.

"Baby, I know how to add hyperlinks to Wordpress captions."

Now, I’m not techy enough to know exactly why Wordpress strips links from captions but it does. I do know that with some fiddling about, I finally found a fairly straight forward workaround that doesn’t involve custom fields or plugins.

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