Category Archives: WordPress

Installing WordPress locally. MySQL and PHP problems

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Trying to install WordPress locally on my machine using Apache, PHP and MySQL. Installed Apache and PHP 5.0.2. Got the latest MySql from Mysql, and installed their connectors. WordPress wouldn’t run. Complained that MySql wasn’t configured under PHP

Did some research and finally determined that the problem was with the version of the mysql libraries I was trying to use. Found this out by going to the command line and typing php -m. When php tried to start, it gave me errors.

Once I got the latest version from the php install zip, and put them in the correct place, PHP started and showed the mysql extension. WordPress now runs correctly.

WordPress Fast Frontend

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Someone fed up with the sluggishness of WordPress and the messy code. If you’re also unhappy, worth a check.

It will obviously take some time to go through the code and test it to ensure it works well enough for you. I’m not willing to invest that amount of time right now, but still want to be aware of it later.

WordPress Fast Frontend

Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net | WordPress Hack: Notify Users of Moderation

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By default, WordPress does not notify a user if their comment has gone into moderation. This hack will pop-up a window to let the user know their comment has been sent to moderation.

Hopefully this will eliminate cases where the user posts their comment multiple times because they think it got lost.

Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net | WordPress Hack: Notify Users of Moderation

Kitten’s Project Blog – Kitten’s Spaminator

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A very useful addin if you’re using WordPress for your blog. Add it to your plugins, turn it on, and it does the work. A few options can be set in the script to control whether you get notification emails, and to define some explicit regex values.

The other filters are read from the WordPress options page under Discussion (for 1.2.1).

Kitten’s Project Blog – Kitten%u2019s Spaminator

According to comments I’ve read, this functionality has been incorporated into WordPress 1.3, so you won’t explicitly need this plugin when you upgrade.