WordPress on Red Hat / CentOS Linux

If you run WordPress on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or its free cousin CentOS then you will likely run into the following error after you have unpacked WordPress, installed it and tried to do your initial setup: Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php …

Update to WordPress 2.6.2

While working on other items this evening I decided that it was time to do a needed WordPress update from the 2.5 series to the latest in the 2.6 series.  The upgrade went smoothly and, as you can see, we are back online without a hitch. Supposedly, the hot new feature of the 2.6 series …

November 6, 2007: Planning for the UK

I updated SGL’s WordPress engine to 2.3.1 today. We now have tagging support even though the theme that I am using does not support tags yet. But eventually they will appear for you and it will be very exciting. Trust me. It was a perfect morning today. Cold and rainy. I had a sesame seed …