This blog is BrowserID enabled

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

...because I simply love this new authentication technique. When you install the Wordpress plugin, the login screen changes with a small button to perform the BrowserID enabled login: When you click on Sign in, the verification begins... ...et voilà, you're in your Dashboard! Of course you need to have a user with email matching the ...

Assigning privileges to a user on MySQL DB

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Quick and dirty commands from commandline: mysql -u <user> -p<password> mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dbpassword'; ...

WordPress 2.3: Fixing post by mail default category in postie plugin.

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

This bit of experience has been "grabbed-as-is" from another blog. See page bottom for details... If you’ve tried using the Postie plug-in (version 1.1.1, anyway) with WordPress 2.3, you’ve probably seen that the feature related to Categories do not work. The database schema changed for WordPress2.3, and Postie was reading categories ...

Character Set and accented characters when migrating WP 2.0 to 2.3.

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Again on WP migration. My previous 2.0.11 installation was having DB collation and Character Set configured as latin1 (by default with WordPress 2.0.x). Bad thing happened when I exported my sql db and reimported in new 2.3.1 installation (defaulting at UTF-8) and saw all accented characters displayed as question marks, ugly signs, ...

Odd WordPress > 2.1 error

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

I recently upgraded my Wordpress database from 2.0.11 to 2.3.1.I was writing a post, clicked Save and I got a WordPress database error: Table <tablename>.wp_post2cat doesn't exist nasty error. I dug a bit on the Net and found it was a plugin, in my case Goosle Sitemap plugin, doing a query like SELECT * ...