Web Development

If you’re trying to do some testing on your existing WordPress website locally (using something like XAMPP) using the same files and database but find that it keeps 302 redirecting to your website rather than running it locally, you will have to configure your WordPress options to set your home and site URL to your…

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If you’re using WordPress 2.7 and you’re trying to upgrade to WordPress 2.7.1 and you come across an error message like “Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()“, make sure that your WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin is disabled/deactivated. Then proceed to upgrade your WordPress to version 2.7.1 from your dashboard and it should work fine (make sure your backup…

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I promised Hong Yi’s mum that I would write a social bookmarking widget for her blog on Google’s Blogger so I’ve spent part of my valentine’s day writing this widget for her. The purpose of utilising social bookmarking widgets is to allow you to expand your reach of readership to literally hundred and thousands to…

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You may have read my previous entry on performing a 301 redirect from Blogger to WordPress, where I wrote a script that will capture all traffic to your old Blogger site and redirect it to your new WordPress site. Ideally you’d want to do the 301 redirects from the web server, but unfortunately Blogger doesn’t…

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