A new version of the backup scripts for WordPress 1.2 Mingus is now available. This has been tested with 1.2 Mingus and the instructions have been updated along with some of the code. Some of the new and original features are: One click backup of the WordPress MySql database which can be then downloaded from your browser without the use of any FTP client. One click backup of all the files inside your WordPress folder which can then be downloaded from your browser. Date coded backup named for sql files and zipped WordPress files. Better checking of user level. This menu is only available to users with level 10 (or admin) and every backup/restore script has user checking built in to prevent un authorized usage of this tool. One click restore of database (if you have a Linux server) More streamlined SQL creation resulting in faster backups and cleaner dumps. […]

I had a request on #wordpress to be able to use http://yourblog.com/blog/archives/cat_name/ as a category permalink instead of the default WordPress way of http://yourblog.com/blog/archives/category/cat_name/ and I think I might have come up with a way to modify your htaccess to do just that. Set your permalink template as: /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ Set your cat archives prefix as: /archives and use this file as your htaccess (or copy the contents to your htaccess) after replacing every instance of “blog” with the foldername of your blog. If you do not have your blog in a folder (installed into the root of your website) then remove every instance of blog/ in the following file. http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/cat_htaccess.txt