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Jetpack Takes WordPress Stats into its Fold

As you might have noticed if you updated your WordPress plugins today, WordPress Stats has been added to the Jetpack plugin package and all future updates to WordPress Stats will now be done through Jetpack.

Once Jetpack is installed it is safe to deactivate your old WordPress Stats plugin before authorizing Jetpack’s connection with wordpress.com. If you’re using multi site you will need to authorize Jetpack to connect to your wordpress.com on a site-by-site basis.

But what about those glorious authorization errors?

HowTo: WordPress Code Syntax Highlighting

For months and months and months I’ve been looking for a good code syntax highlighter for WordPress. My requirements are simple: 1, the highlighter mustn’t add lots and lots of div and table tags around my code and, 2, it should add a TinyMCE pre tag button to the visual editor. If I had the … Read more

BASH: Filling Web Forms with cURL and wget

Oh gosh, another cURL and web form post! I couldn’t resist writing this one. While finding information on formfind I noticed an absence of direct help for people wishing to use it so I thought I’d fill the gap in the market. Questions this post answers: How do I fill out an online form without … Read more

HowTo: Pass Data Variables to cURL to Autofill Web Forms

Getting cozy with cURL This isn’t a top 10 magical things to do with cURL post. There are plenty of them around the Net and you will find a few links at the bottom of here to prove that. No, this post is about one thing, using a variable to send data to cURL without … Read more

The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Linux Desktop Back

Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming “No, no, no, no, don’t do it!”, you did it anyway. You just had to click that button. The one that should have been big and red and marked SELF DESTRUCT. And now your computer’s buggered. Isn’t it lovely to have intuition give you it’s best … Read more

Kubuntu 11.10 – A Very Early Review

Is Ocelot ready to pounce? Or is it all oneiric? In the twilight hours of this morning, I thought I’d take a look at the new Kubuntu 11.10, codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, in my half-awake non-caffeinated state. Knowing how much you all dislike Ubuntu Unity and … Read more

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