Written by James |
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
IIS, permalinks, pretty, WordPress
Using WordPress on an IIS (windows) server can be a real pain. The biggest issue I have found is trying to get pretty permalinks (making the address bar look like http://www.james-morrison.org/wordpress/ rather than http://www.james-morrison.org/index.php/wordpress/ or worse http://www.james-morrison.org/?p=123). I have found an easy way to get around this (my site is hosted on an IIS server) [...]
Warning: Shortcodes are affected by Trac ticket 6444, which should be applied to WordPress 2.5.1. First I touched on the topic in my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Then I whined a little about the tickets relating to them, and eventually I released my Google Maps Plugin that uses them. In the end, WordPress’s new [...]
WordPress 2.5 was recently released. I’m not your average WordPress user, I develop plugins, test the upcoming releases, and even contribute to the core when I can. Why do I say all this? I hope it will give you an idea where I’m coming from, as I share my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Writing [...]
