This is a very interesting and useful wesbite from ScrtiptyGoddess It talks about the benefits, drawbacks and the tweaks of .htaccess This is a tool which MUST belong in the quiver of an educated and accomplished blogger! Here is the link to the wonderful article.

This tutorial explains the nuances of migrating from b2 or Cafelog to WordPress. Here is the link to the tutorial. It is very well done! The only question I have for him is….and you blog is in MT???

This information can be found in the WordPress Wiki but some people might find it useful to help them make up their mind about upgrades (or migrations) WordPress 1.0.1 Changelog: * Several improvements related to the handling of international characters. * “Future” blog posts should show up in the admin interface * b2 import * blogger import * Calendar day titles are only showing the last post, not all posts separated. * Calendar links to posts in the future * Change installed check to use a different table than options, probably categories * Check all importers * Comment Moderation setting values * comment out sending the unmodified header in rss/rdf feeds * comment_tags_allowed bug * Dublin Core in RSS feeds * edit-showposts.php? * Fix links-update-xml.php * get_links_list should put descriptions in title attribute * greymatter import * fixed import-b2.php errors * Make sure the bookmarklet works in Safari * Modify […]

Jeremy pointed out a method to ping Yahoo RSS crawler for Moveable Type blogs and he did a great job explaining it with pictures. So if you are using MT, check out his entry. I consequently wrote a little pinger for WordPress which does the same thing. Add this function to your my-hacks.php: // pings Yahoo.com RSS Crawler function pingYahoo($blog_ID = 1) { // original function by Dries Buytaert for Drupal global $blogname,$siteurl,$blogfilename; if ((!(($blogname==”my weblog”) && ($siteurl==”http://example.com”) && ($blogfilename==”wp.php”))) && (!preg_match(“/localhost\//”,$siteurl))) { $client = new xmlrpc_client(“/RPC2”, “api.my.yahoo.com”, 80); $message = new xmlrpcmsg(“weblogUpdates.ping”, array(new xmlrpcval($blogname), new xmlrpcval($siteurl.”/”.$blogfilename))); $result = $client->send($message); if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) { return false; } return true; } else { return false; } } Find these lines in your post.php (inside wp-admin folder) : pingWeblogs($blog_ID); pingBlogs($blog_ID); And add this right after that: pingYahoo($blog_ID); All done and pingin!