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WordPress Updates with 1and1 hosting

Jeremy Snyder — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:04:38 +0000

If WordPress automatic updates fail using 1and1.com hosting with the message: WordPress 2.7.1 Upgrade Failed.

All you need to do is add this line to your .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

Jeremy Snyder — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:13 +0000

Followed the simple 3-step upgrade process at WordPress.org and had no problems getting it installed.

Twitter and WordPress

Jeremy Snyder — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:41:49 +0000

I wanted to document one of the hacks that I have made to a the Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget.

Edit to “Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget”

I wanted a line break after the time, so I added the following line:
li.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));

As the last line inside the following “if” statement:
if ( showTimeFirst == 1) {

I also attempted to hack up the Twitter Updater to provide a nicer URL to twitter that would then appear nice in the above mentioned Twitter SideBar Widget… but ran into some issues. I have determined that I need to make the change to the Sidebar Widget and detect the URL and then place it into a ““. A project for another day.

Twitter’n

Jeremy Snyder — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:07:12 +0000

Now that I have successfully moved to my new web hosting provider, I am ready to get back to blogging more regularly. The move was relatively easy, but took time to get everyone to play nicely and move the DNS records and get WordPress upgraded and all the old articles restored.

One of the first things I have decided to play with is Twitter. I am going to use the IM -> twitter interface for the common updates, since I don’t have a text-messaging plan on my phone anymore. Since I always have IM open at work, and they have a nice interface from GTalk->Twitter… why not.