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Archive for April, 2010

Automatic Plugin Upgrade broken after WordPress 2.9.2 and some fixes

| April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
After manually upgrading one of our client's sites to WordPress 2.9.2. we noticed that the only thing that went awry was the automatic plugin upgrade. WP asked me for the FTP information, and then gave me this error message: Cannot find Content directory (WP-Content) The first solution I found suggested to make sure that all the necessary ... View Post

How to create an archive based on custom fields, not publish date in WordPress

| April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
We recently launched a site called theforgottenletters.org, an incredible project dedicated to translating the Holocaust-era letters of Ralph Schwab from German to English. While building the site, we needed to archive the letters based on the dates the letters were written, not when we publish them to the site. First, I tried this ... View Post