Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

The static pages (like Store) are working again.  I’ve had to fix the redirect plugin by Nick Berlette.  If you want it to work with your modern Wordpress blog (2.6 or higher) you just need to change a tiny bit.
Remove this:
require_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-config.php’);
Replace with:
$root = dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))));
if (file_exists($root.‘/wp-load.php’)) {
    require_once($root.‘/wp-load.php’);
} else {
    require_once($root.‘/wp-config.php’);
}
It should [...]

If you have comments in your Wordpress 2.5.1 blog but the admin page says you don’t:

Then you probably have a missing index on the table wp_comments.  You just need to add an index on column comments_date_gmt:

I’ve been looking at switching host providers from Yahoo for some time.  I did a test migration to Wordpress.com but discovered that they really don’t seem to get that many people would like to control their own blog.  For a simple blog, Wordpress.com would be fine but you might as well go with Livejournal.com, Facebook [...]

Sometime early this afternoon, the categories & tags of my blog disappeared. After a little bit of investigation (I was working quite heavily at the time), I discovered that the wp_term_taxonomy table in MySQL contained minor corruption. I ran repair table ‘wp_term_taxonomy’ and it was corrected.

Selena over at Tending the Garden, posted a very good video of why you would choose Wordpress or Drupal. It seems a little slanted towards Drupal but that may just be me