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I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.
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So you’ve migrated a bunch of users over from another system and then, horror, you discover that they don’t have roles in WordPress. The WP Users admin screen doesn’t cope with this issue (why should it), so the only option…
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Migration to bbPress – fix topic slugs
So I’ve just had to migrate a whole load of data to bbPress, and unfortunately the fairly old migration tool I was using (while generally excellent) didn’t bring across the topic-slugs, meaning I couldn’t have pretty permalinks in bbPress. So…
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Installing ImageMagick on MacPorts and imagick on PECL
Over the last few hours I’ve installed ImageMagick on MacPorts (super easy), and imagick on PECL (not so much). Xentek‘s post on ImageMagick and imagick was a great help, and got me past the first brick wall I hit (passing…
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Editing many posts at once in WordPress
Need to edit many posts at once in WordPress? Is the standard limit of 15 posts on the Posts Edit screen just not enough for you? Well, there is a hack you might be interested in. This involves editing the…
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Restoring deleted files from an SVN repository
I’ve always idly thought that one of the brilliant things about version control was that you could recover accidentally deleted files when it became necessary. Well that scenario arose today, and I realised I had absolutely no idea how to…
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