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Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Adding Plugins

Thank you for joining me again for this series on maintaing WordPress from subversion. We talked previously about creating an SVN repository and then about importing WordPress into the SVN repository.
Today, we get into customizations. It does us no good to have an SVN repository with WordPress if we don’t change it to be something […]

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Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Import WordPress into Your Repository

Last time, I talked to you a bit about setting up a clean subversion repository for your WordPress build. Today, I want to take that a step farther and help you bring WordPress into working copy and commit it into your repo.

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Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Create Your Repository

A lot of people know that I’ve done a bit with maintenance of WordPress using subversion. Alot of those same people have asked me to show how it’s done. It’s not very difficult, really, but I encourage you to work with a host like Dreamhost that provides one click installs of svn. It’s the easiest […]

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Untraceable: Light on plot; Heavy on message

Last night, my wife and I decided to go check out the new movie Untraceable starring Diane Lane. We both believe we got our money’s worth.
Spoiler to follow.
The plot was a bit weak and worn out. The FBI cybercrime division do their cyber warfare bit on Windows Vista machines, for one, which makes it somewhat […]

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Expression Engine WXR Export Class

Earlier, I shared with you a new base class I’m releasing into the wild. While that was a conceptually nice piece of code, and potentially useful, it didn’t really translate in usefulness without some actual code.
As mentioned, I just moved Shai to WordPress from Expression Engine and it required writing a custom export routine. Instead, […]

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WordPress WXR Class

One of the most frustrating things to me in my years of working with WordPress and b5media has been migrating blogs into WordPress. Every blog platform does things differently and although WordPress has import support for a large number of blog platforms, it always seems like I get the job of migrating from platforms that […]