The 42nd Estate

On sites running Wordpress 2.9, we’ve noticed a small bug appear on a few installations. After the upgrade it appears the timezone settings get misconfigured AND scheduled posts don’t publish on time. If the timezone was manually set (e.g. using UTC +/-), after the upgrade it would reset to a value one lower/higher and on certain server configurations scheduled posts simply wouldn’t publish.

Wordpress 2.8.5 has just been released. The main additions are security tweaks, which makes the update a must download.

Debbie Merion from Essay Coaching was referred to us for help turning her existing Flash-based site into an easy to manage Wordpress setup. Moving from Flash to HTML/CSS wrapped in a wordpress installation helped optimize Essay Coaching for search engines and human visitors and gives Debbie an easy way to post updates to her new site.

We’ve witnessed and received reports that after upgrading the wordpress.com stats plugin, wordpress.org blogs will not record stats unless you go into the plugins section and activate the plugin. No error messages are given during the upgrade, and it appears to re-activate correctly, but if you browse into the dashboard Blog Stats will not be listed.

A while back I found a great article on how to move your All in One SEO values into your Thesis fields. The reason it’s a great idea is because Thesis already comes with many (not all) of the fields the All in One SEO plugin adds. While the Thesis theme [affiliate link] allows you to use the All in One SEO plugin alongside Thesis, migrating your old SEO meta values into the Thesis fields allows you to shut down and uninstall the All in One SEO plugin, thus reducing your blog’s footprint on your server.