Life, Hacks, and Internet

The default WordPress wysiwyg writing tool, TinyMCE is a piece of shit. First, there’s the character escaping. I can’t upload and embed a god damn flash video (*.flv) because TinyMCE decides to escape and "correct" all the friggin code:

Then there’s the upload tool. It doesn’t generate valid code. It sends apostrophes instead of commas, then after saving the post, it changes the tag properties to UPERCASE! WTF man, XHTML 1.0 transitional asks for lowercase tag properties. Also, there is no width, height and alt for the img tag properties when uploading images. This is crucial to image SEO. Switching to …read more…

As you might know, today WordPress version 2.2 has been released.

After reading the changelog, I decided to upgrade pufone.org blog and also write a guide with screenshots. Who knows this might help some of you out there. Here is how I upgraded from WordPress 2.1.3 to WordPress 2.2:

First, i downloaded WordPress 2.2.
Then i begun the backup. The backup process consists of two parts:

• The MySQL backup

I backed up my WordPress database using phpMyAdmin, if you don’t have it installed, you might want to read this tutorial. (half way down the page)
To do this you first need to …read more…