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Now that Zeitgeist has been released on WPPlugins.org, its page here has been set aside for the release manual and discussion. This post contains the contents and comments from the pre-release page.

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I have released a spam-fighting plugin for WordPress, based on Akismet over at WPPlugins.org.

You can now reply to other people’s comments as well as the main post. Have a go.

“Smiley” Peformance Monitor plugin for WordPress

As there have been reports of dramatic slow-downs after upgrading to WordPress 2.0.4, and my blog is still running 2.0.3, naturally I wish to investigate these reports prior to upgrading. I could wait for the WordPress developers to do this, but I’m impatient. WordPress 2.0.4 contains a critical security fix that I wish to apply, among others. I don’t want to sacrifice performance for a tiny amount of extra safety.

I previously investigated the memory use of WordPress 2.0.2. I shall build upon that work to introduce execution timestamps and database queries into the performance graph. I shall then directly compare the performance of 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 on the same dataset - my blog, of course!

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Or, in this particular case, a futile attempt at outright deception.

Menu and plugin tweaks indeed! If I believed that, I might never have noticed the ever-so-vital change to line 364 of admin-functions.php.

Today I launched a plugin for WordPress 2 to provide fine-grained and broad-brush access control over your posts, using the existing password-protection system, custom post meta-data and options.

The availability of Access Control plugin for WordPress was first made public by way of this post on the wp-hackers mailing list.

Automatically Backup All Wordpress Databases On A Server by Niklas Lindblad.

Wow! Another thought inspired by The Cathedral and The Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond. This time, lessons 3 and 2. If you are not a geek, this post contains Outreach links especially for you.
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A thought inspired by this message on the wp-hackers mailing list by Mike Purvis, and The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, a few chapters of which I read recently for the first time. Lesson 9 sprang to mind. Then this did. An old defeat.

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Apologies for the down-time over the last couple of days. This blog has been undergoing a major metamorphosis under the covers so I thought it best to hit the big red switch.

This blog now runs stock WordPress 2.0.3 instead of my previous, heavily-customised version Liberated WordPress 1.5.2. The experience of upgrading has been one less of education than simply doing what I know, properly. I now have a lovely Subversion repository containing all the changes I have made since the blog went down - a track of the entire upgrade procedure.

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