WordPress bug and CentOS

gabriel — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:38:31 +0000

Turns out, the Worpress 2.9 bug is actually caused by cURL. If you’re a centOS user, the version of cURL that is available from all the repos is 7.15.5. The current version from cURL is 7.19.7. The problem is, that there are lots of dependencies for later versions of cURL and libcURL to work on centOS 4 or 5, that are not found in the repos. For now, I’m sticking with 7.15.5, as upgrading to 7.19.7 did not turn out so well on my server. As usual, I feel a lot more comfortable with a Debian box, instead of this RedHat derivative, but that’s what my hosting offered. Once I get a little free time, I may actually try to get a more recent version of cURL working, but it won’t be this weekend.

I ordered a 1 TB drive for my 24″ iMac, and I’m going to be installing that this weekend. Should be fun.

WordPress 2.9 bugs

gabriel — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:59:48 +0000

As the WordPress team has already mentioned, there are several bugs in 2.9. There is a beta version of 2.9.1 available. However, I try not to run beta versions of WordPress. I am actually experiencing one of the bugs, missed scheduled posts. I use a scheduler to post tweets at the end of the day, and it has not worked since upgrading to 2.9.

If you’re like me, and don’t want to wait for a final release of 2.9.1, here’s a way to fix this bug:

Missed scheduled post bug fix

Just replace the 3 files supplied, be sure to make backup versions of the files before hand, and it should fix the problem for you.

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