Monthly Archives: September 2008

WordPress MU in a development environment

By Will Norris | Published: September 18, 2008
Most of the development I do for my job is within WordPress, so I have quite a few WordPress instances running on my local workstation. I’ve been using the same custom Apache setup for three years, and have been developing on WordPress for almost as long, so I’ve been a bit bewildered with the [...]

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tr.im python script (for Mac)

By Will Norris | Published: September 17, 2008
For a while I have been using a simple AppleScript script to convert URLs into shortened URLs. The flow goes something like: Initiate script from Quicksilver Grab URL from the front-most window in Safari Submit URL to URL shortening service (previously xrl.us, but more recently bit.ly) Copy shortened URL to system clipboard (for pasting into Twitterific) Notify of process [...]

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Providing and Delegating OpenIDs

By Will Norris | Published: September 16, 2008
The [next major release][] of wp-openid includes a built-in OpenID provider and delegation engine. This will certainly be the most exciting feature of this release for most people, so let me explain a bit how it works. Each authorized user on the WordPress blog will have an OpenID at the author posts URL [...]

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wp-openid - faster, stronger, better

By Will Norris | Published: September 16, 2008
One of the primary focuses for this next major release of wp-openid is stability. While most people have had great success with the plugin, there are a fair number that seem to have all kinds of strange problems, ranging from conflicts with other plugins, data corruption, library issues, etc. In order to reach [...]

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The Next Steps with wp-openid

By Will Norris | Published: September 16, 2008
I’m really excited about what’s been happening with the WordPress OpenID plugin the last couple of weeks. When it’s ready to ship, I’m sure I’ll do some really deep contemplative post about “how far we’ve come” or something like that. In the meantime however, I think I’ve got something that is mostly feature [...]

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