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Andy Fragen

  • Sporting a New Look

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    So @tommcfarlin has finally made his Mayer theme available for WordPress.org sites. I’ve been following Tom’s progress with Mayer and I had to make it my first purchased WordPress theme. I really appreciate Tom’s (and WordPress’) core philosophy, “decisions, not options”. It allows for much more efficient code. I’m really looking forward to how Mayer…

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  • Transferring IMAP Messages

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    Well I’m on to my final phase in transferring from my own server to @DreamHost. Actually, transferring mail and not loosing messages jacked up my anxiety level significantly. I’ve done a lot of testing and found that imapsync works great. After tweaking the command, I came up with the following. perl imapsync –host1 localhost –user1…

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  • Add Custom Header Images

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    After using this plugin for quite a while I decided to refactor it and submit it to the WordPress Plugin repo. I figured maybe someone else might find it useful. What the plugin does is add all images that have been uploaded to a page titled The Headers to the header image array and allows…

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  • Dreamhost, WordPress and WebDAV

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    So next on my list was figuring out how to create a nested group of password protected directories with different users accessing various sub-directories. It’s much simpler than it sounds. The only caveat was that the main domain is running WordPress. As such I had to tweak the .htaccess file. Fortunately the instructions were simple.…

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  • Transferring WordPress

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    So the benefit of having many domains to play with is that I get to test things out before I put them on a live site. I was able to successfully transfer a multisite WordPress installation to @Dreamhost. Here’s what I did. Use 1-click installer to create base site @Dreamhost. Make site a multisite installation.…

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