Updates coming…

Tags:announcement, blog, coming, reskin, soon.

Now that I’m clear of a number of projects it’s time to finally ramp this blog up. I’ll be reskining it with a better interface soon and announcing it to my friends and family. The side bar content was just updated and some weird flukes fixed (Twitter and Flickr widgets weren’t updating, but are now). So keep you eyes peeled for big changes at Mod’rn Muse!

Blogging by iPhone

Tags:apple, iphone, WordPress.

It’s here! WordPress for iPhone just hit the Apple iTunes App Store. This is exactly the application I was waiting for. It’s a lot more full-featured than I expected it to be. You can do practically every essential posting operation right from your iPhone… and that’s exactly what I’m doing right now.

WordPress 2.6 Upgrade Hickups

Tags:2.6, upgrade, WordPress.

As all users of WordPress likely discovered today (or will soon) the version 2.6 is out and ready for instal. As usual, it’s a pretty easy process. You have to be careful not to overwrite your wp_content folder and you have to make some minor changes to the wp_config file, but beyond that it’s simple. HOWEVER, one rather critical element of the upgrade wasn’t mentioned in the documentation: you must clear your WordPress cookies before trying to log in again or you’ll get stuck in a login loop that never takes you to the admin area of your blog. Kinda critical. Luckily lots of people are already blogging about this issue, so finding the fix is a snap. Maybe you’re even seeing it here for the first time.

Since I’m a Mac user on Safari it was easy enough to view my cookies (preferences -> security -> show cookies) and use Spotlight the built-in Spotlight search to delete only cookies tagged with the word WordPress. Dumping all my cookies would have been a major bitch, but luckily Safari allows for easy, targeted cookie deletion.

So, there you have it. Good luck updating! The new version has some very nice new features.

Hello world!

Tags:post, test, WordPress.

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