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Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:04:19 +0000

Update: 9th of April, 2008
This blog runs Wordpress 2.5, which confirms the theme(s) to be compatible to Wordpress 2.5.
Also tagging and widget support has been built-in.

This blog is now running Wordpress 2.3 (updated as by Mid-October). This theme seems to work with it, yet no tagging support has been built-in. I will do that once I have more time.

You can get this Rainbow Feather theme on my blog and design portfolio at h4×3d.com

If I have some spare time over christmas I plan to continue my theme-challenge. As I have bought an EOS 350D recently, there are many pictures of objects and nature to be used. Stay locked!

subversion on centOS

admin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:47:29 +0000

Improved Backup and Restore Utilities give you the ability to backup and restore Plesk server settings through command line interface.How cool is this? Subversion on CentOS
(custom field - sponge value 1 via wp-unformatted plugin to tackle p-offset bug)

* Only Root users can create vhost.conf files.
* After you make changes to the conf files, you have to tell Plesk to reload the new configuration. To do so, run

#/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=

For more information, please consult the Plesk’s Admins Guide on sub-domain customization

An Image here:

D. Customizing Sub-Domain configurations

As I created a subdomain “svn” for my site, makefun.us, I had to create a vhost.conf file under /var/www/vhosts/makefun.us/subdomains/svn/conf/vhost.conf. Also, my repository is under /var/svnrepo/, so here is the content of the vhost.conf file

#svn.makefun.us — vhost.conf file

DAV svn
SVNPath /var/svnrepo/
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Makefun.us Subversion Repository”
AuthUserFile /etc/svn-auth-file
Require valid-user

First of all, with DAV svn we ask Apache to hand over to the mod_dav_svn module when there’s a request to http://svn.makefun.us (the location /). Then we specify the repository’s root at /var/svnrepo/. Then we specify that this is a private repository by asking Apache to provide Basic Authorization (which means the authenticated password will be transmitted as text via the wire). Well, we name our private zone the “Makefun.us Subversion Repositor” and the user accounts are stored in /etc/svn-auth-file. Finally, to access the repository via the web, the user must be able to authenticate – as we only allow valid-user to access (Require valid-user)

Next, I created a new user account for myself so that I can access the repository:

#htpasswd -c /etc/svn-auth-file my_user_name

At this point, you can either restart Apache by running #server httpd restart or just use the websrvmng of Plesk to pick up the new configuration. I just restarted Apache. If everything works out correctly for you, if you point your browser to http://svn.yourdomain.com, you would see a prompt for username and password. Enter your just created account, you can access to your very own the SVN repository. How amazing is that?

An example of child categories

admin — Sun, 20 May 2007 06:59:02 +0000

A list

one, two
threee
four

ordered list:

one
two
threee
four
five

Wordpress 2.1 hi and bye

admin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:46:45 +0000

Wordpress’ latest release 2.1. is a clear hi and bye for me.
Seems like it is not yet ready for launch.

The upgrade process this time was somewhat troublesome: if I didn’t mix up things WP 2.1 adds a table called link2cat to your database, which -prior to 2.1.- didn’t exist.

This change conflicted with various plugins I had used before, e.g. the Sideblog Wordpress Plugin by Kates. But hence I didn’t know what went wrong after upgrading I had to play blindfish for about an hour. Somehow the pages of my site disappeared. All wordpress pages were no longer accessible and returned a 404 error.
Weird, because on the Admin area they were still visible and editable.
Another page was accessible, but the next, or newly created pages weren’t.
After all I found out that this was caused by combination of changes.

a. wordpress 2.1
b. Sideblog Wordpress Plugin 3.6

in the process of switching back I ruined my database and had to reupload a backup.
I am lucky now I got all posts and pages back and working and will conclude by saying
“never change a running system”.

p.s. I will get the themes coming as soon as I got the right permissions on the themeviewer website by wordpress.
Two themes that are ready so far are called corporateFK and fastr. No it is not related to flickr or simplr, but thanks for asking!

Stunning Fortress Forever (hl2 mod) media released

admin — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:02:18 +0000

I have been waiting for Team Fortress 2 for years now, I remember buying all these Game Mags in the 90’s but what the guys at fortress forever have come up with is incredible.
FF was scheduled for release in August 2006, but as it could be read in the
DEV journals the reason d’etre for the delay was the high amount of bugs that had to be fixed/worked on.

As I see it, Fortress Forever (It is a Team Fortress mod for the Half-life 2’s Source Engine), is already in the BETA-phase but not yet ready to be released to the public.

The media files they have released on their website yesterday are stunning!
I don’t even want Team Fortress2 anymore if I can get this.

Either go to → their official website (Fortress-Forever.com),
or look at the media (YouTube) below. I am speechless…

Video download links: Youtube | Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 | Mirror 3 | Mirror 4 (teamfortress2.de)