You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit […][...] → Read more

Edit: this plugin had several bugs that made me write my own take on this. Absolute Comments is in my opinion far better, go try it :) I guess every WordPress user in the world have dreamt about it : the ability to reply to a comment from within the admin area, and without visiting […][...] → Read more

Today I felt like tidying a bit Planet WordPress, an unofficial aggregation of feeds about WordPress I've been maintaining for about 2 years now. The thing was fetching about 80 feeds, of which about a half were… dead, missing in action, or just inactive. It quickly appeared to me than manually reviewing 80 feeds would […][...] → Read more

This guy makes awesome WordPress themes, turning your blog into a real command line interface, with command history and all. Flavors : C64 or Linux shell. Practically unusable, totally search engine unfriendly, but man, this is fun :)[...] → Read more

Hello world ! It was rather long (damn, 3 months already ? time flies !) but I think it's all done now : I've moved my blog here. Welcome (back) to planetOzh, version 4 ! My Technorati suicide (so long, rank 200 or so) is commited : new look, new domain, new evewyfing ! I […][...] → Read more

If things go as expected and planned, this should be my very last post here : I'm moving this blog somewhere else (yes, there) I've began to work at the megacumbersome task that is moving a rather old site, with lots of download links, files, old html content, static stuffs and database things. Even moving […][...] → Read more

Sorry for the frequent down time these past few days. The apache and mysql daemons are randomly dying, my sysadmin suspects that someone is triggering some bug or exploit somewhere but he cannot hunt this sucker down. As soon as I find an ounce of courage and a few spare hours, I think I'll eventually […][...] → Read more

WP SEO: they made a theme from WP's dashboard. Not too bad.[...] → Read more

Oops ! Sorry for the downtime of my blog (and subsequent interruption of service for planet WordPress). I have a nice sysadmin who just forgot to reboot hardware after doing some maintenance and then left for an extended week-end :)[...] → Read more

There's a new Japanse book about WordPress around, WordPress Standard Guidebook (transgooglation, announcement) and it features a few plugins, including my Admin Drop Down Menu. Nice :)[...] → Read more