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Wordpress is still half-baked junk

August 2, 2009 – 6:30 pm

Normally-invisible Jacques here.
Those of you who know me know that I regularly complain about Wordpress. In their rush to add ever more features and introduce new-shineys, the developers of Wordpress generally can’t be arsed to close old bugs, write proper tests or confirm that their software isn’t lame rubbish.
Latest pet peeve: version 2.8 doesn’t correctly [...]

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I broke it

June 21, 2009 – 10:15 pm

Sorry, my fault.

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Another thing I got wrong

April 8, 2009 – 9:22 pm

I misconfigured postfix, the server program that handles the delivery of emails on behalf of Wordpress and some other programs. I’d done some fancy stuff to make sure SL’s avatar showed properly but didn’t test it. Consequently postfix began to accept mail into its pending queue, but stopped sending any.
Today, looking at the server stats, [...]

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More kerfupsing

April 4, 2009 – 5:34 pm

A few days ago the server went bonkers and locked up. At the time I was not sure why. I restarted the HTTP server (in our case, Lighttpd) and everything seemed to return to normal. That’s usually how you know everything is completely broken.
Today the server went nuts again. For the nerds amongst you, it [...]

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Sorry folks

April 2, 2009 – 11:32 am

The server threw some sort of wobbly. It seems to be working now. We now return you to your regularly scheduled erudition, humour and wisdom.

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An update

December 21, 2008 – 3:34 pm

Amongst the various websites I have a hand in, Skepticlawyer is the first one which I’ve moved to Wordpress 2.7. If there’s a sudden decline in posting volume from SL and LE, you can blame the all-new interface that came down the pipe.

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Disruptions

August 29, 2008 – 11:24 am

Sorry folks, it’s me. These days when I install Wordpress I do a checkout from the main source repository, which has the nice property that I need only run a single command to update the exact files which change from version to version without having to do anything chancy.
At least, that’s the theory. It’s not [...]

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Today’s round of downtime

May 27, 2008 – 1:32 pm

It seems I managed to enjoy the benefits of an obscure bug in our web serving software. I’ve applied the workaround, which should — excuse me while I grimace — prevent it from happening again.
Update: I’m also installed monit, a tool which watches the server to ensure everything is still running and OK. I’ve looked [...]

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