Category Archives: Wordpress

BSDCan and Planet FreeBSD TLC

Posted by Florent Thoumie on May 13, 2010 1 comments

I’ve had the chance to attend BSDCan this year (thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation) and while Day 0 had been packed full of fail (some of it being caused by a lack of preparation, some was out of my control), the following days definitely made up for it. I’ll write a proper summary when I come back home, this isn’t really the object of this post…

I just noticed BSDTalk wasn’t aggregated on planet, it was only in the sidebar as a simple link. This is now fixed and I’ve also added Dan’s “FreeBSD Diary” and Dru’s “A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru”.

I’d like to use the opportunity to ask what other blogs you think should be aggregated and/or listed, also how you think I can make the blogs.freebsdish.org service better.

FreeBSD Blogs and Planet FreeBSD

Posted by Florent Thoumie on January 14, 2010 Comments Off

First, I’d like to apologize for the extended downtime planet freebsd has suffered in the past three weeks. The server was back up a few days ago but the issues I’ve been experiencing since early december were still present. The load on the box was insanely high all the time for very little traffic.

I’ve finally managed to find what was causing it and it seems to be working properly again (as in, requesting the front page doesn’t take 30 seconds amymore). While I was at it, I upgraded WordPress-MU to the freshly released 2.9.1 (video embedding is now dead easy, there’s a integrated picture editor, ...).

Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Happy reading!

Planet FreeBSDish update (again)

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 20, 2009 2 comments

So, that WordPress plugin I mentioned previously has been working pretty well and I might replace Planet faster than I thought. Actually I might do that over the weekend.

A few users probably won’t be happy that the “complete” version is going away. I don’t have plans for it at the moment. If you think something else is missing, leave a comment.

If you’re meant to be listed on blogs.freebsdish.org but you’re not, then drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll (re-)add you.
If you’re in the list but don’t put your posts in the FreeBSD category, then they won’t be aggregated.

Another Planet FreeBSD in testing…

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 16, 2009 2 comments

Alright, so I just found out about that FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress and I figured I would give it a spin. It seems to be doing everything I did with Planet, and has a few features (shared admin rights through wordpress accounts, mark new posts as pending instead of publishing them straight away) that could prove useful if I want to poke core@ about planet.freebsd.org once again.

Anyway, check it out.

blogs.freebsdish.org updated to wordpress-mu 2.8.2

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 23, 2009 Comments Off

WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).

Source

WordPress-MU updated to 2.8.1

Posted by Florent Thoumie on July 14, 2009 Comments Off

Following WordPress-MU 2.8.1 release, I’ve updated the copy on blogs.freebsdish.org. Apparently there’s a bug with the auto-upgrader as it still says I should update to 2.8.1.

As usual, poke me if you encounter any issue.

FreeBSD(ish) blogs get some TLC

Posted by Florent Thoumie on May 11, 2009 1 comments

Quick summary of the changes:

  • WordPress MU updated to 2.7.1

  • Automatic upgrade is fixed now, so hopefully I’ll be upgrading wpmu and the plugins faster from now on

  • K2 theme updated: if you’re planning on using it, I recommend activating Advanced Navigation in K2 options and also use Widgets (both in Appearance menu) or your sidebar will look funny.

  • New plugins: All in One SEO (search engine optimization), Sociable (share on social websites), WPhone (iphone friendly css), Akismet (anti-spam), Twitter (display twitter feeds)

  • Removed plugins: Iwphone (superseded by WPhone)

  • Plugins considered for removal (shout if you want to keep them): Sol-Digg and Sol-Delicious (superseded by Sociable), Spam Karma 2 (superseded by Akismet)

Also I’m having issues with bundled OpenID delegation support, so I’ll keep the third-party plugin for now. As usual, send me an email if you would like new themes/plugins, or if something got broken.

blogs.freebsdish.org updated to WordPress-MU 2.7

Posted by Florent Thoumie on February 3, 2009 Comments Off

Apparently I missed the release last week, but it happened finally. I’ll send-pr the update for the port later.

If you encounter any issue, would like a new theme or plugin, leave a comment or drop me an email.

WordPress-MU and Planet moved to a new home

Posted by Florent Thoumie on January 15, 2008 Comments Off

I’ve finally swapped the old PowerEdge 2550 with a (less) old PowerEdge 2660. It sports a Bi-Xeon 3GHz AFAIK which should be more than enough for what it’s currently doing.

WordPress-MU and Planet were unavailable for a short as I replaced Apache with Lighttpd. I think everything is back on, drop me an email if something is misbehaving.

WordPress-MU updated on blogs.freebsdish.org

Posted by Florent Thoumie on January 10, 2008 Comments Off

I updated wordpress-mu to 1.3.0 on blogs.freebsdish.org.

Most noticeable is that people can now leave comments using their OpenID. I’ve also replaced SpamKarma with Bad-Behavior and added a bunch of plugins that people can activate themselves. Have fun!