WordPress S3 Module for Media Content Migration

I have just installed and configured this great Amazon S3 content management module for a site with 15K+ visits per day. The great work done by the developer was definitely worth the contribution made, and it was easy enough to understand and improve upon. So I did... I have a development build of the module available that includes support for a CloudFront URL if applicable, allowing use of the full suite of Amazon's CDN for content delivery around the work. The site I installed it on has...

WordPress 3.0.1 is out

WordPress 3.0.1 is out for download and automatic installation. I have already upgraded this site and am working through my customers' sites as time allows. This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had. If you ever need assistance installing or upgrading WordPress, feel free to contact AANDCP IT Solutions!

WordPress 3.0 is out

WordPress 3.0 is out and available for download. You can check it out here. I have installed it from scratch for one project and I have installed the upgrade using the built-in upgrade tools. Both have been very successful. The new interface improvements are great and it seems very stable. All of my existing templates and plug-ins worked without a a hitch. The only issue I had was with the widgets associated with my templates. I just had to re-add them. Great work from Matt and the ...

Amazon CloudFront and media distribution

So I have finally gotten around to setting up an Amazon CloudFront solution for a hosting customer. Set up an Amazon S3 bucket, upload some content to it (in this case, some .flv files for a film promotion site) and then sign into the AWS console and set up a CloudFront distribution point, selecting the bucket full of content as the source. You optionally even set up your own CNAMEs to have personalized URLs. Finish setting up the distribution point and get the CloudFront URL and then just...

WordPress and SlideDeck

When using SlideDeck with WordPress, you might find that you can't get the SlideDeck to correctly insert as per the instructions. The hint: make sure you are using the Visual Editor in WordPress, not the static HTML editor. One of my hosting customers spent half the weekend with various browsers, version and test SlideDecks in his new WordPress blog, and yet everytime it was working for me! Turns out he had selected "Disable the visual editor when writing" in the User options for his ac...

Importing Movable Type to WordPress

When importing into WordPress, the importer doesn't seem to like accents and umlauts. One of my hosting customers is now going through the entries now and finding that where there is a word with an accent or umlaut in it (e.g. the first "a" in Trollhättan), the importer will stop at that letter and does not import the rest of the post. Thankfully, he didn't write the full Swedish version of words that often. Fun and games!

Issues with WP eDegrees° theme and FCG

If you are using the latest release of the eDegree° WordPress theme and you can't get the Featured Content Gallery to work on the front page, welcome to my world! After a lot of searching, I finally found the solution here. The secret is to comment-out the second line of the wp-content/themes/edegree/js/functions.js.

Insanely Annoying SQL Server Web Database Problem

Well... I have been working with a customer all afternoon trying to get a MSSQL Database uploaded from their office server to a web hosting environment. Check this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/01/11/tip-trick-how-to-upload-a-sql-file-to-a-hoster-and-execute-it-to-deploy-a-sql-database.aspx

JavaScript Gallery

I have just found possibly the easiest and fastest gallery to get going ever! http://www.gcmingati.net/wordpress/wp-content/lab/jquery/imagestrip/imageslide-plugin.html Check it out... and all credit to Gian Carlo Mingati.