A very neat WordPress plugin
As stated in the WordPress’s Codex, one of the steps in doing a proper upgrade of WordPress is deactivating all plugins beforehand (and reactivating upon successful upgrade). Since I’m managing a number of WordPress sites, and each WordPress install has a fair bit amount of active plugins, doing this is a considerably arduous task and annoying (especially so since updates/upgrades get released often).
I was googling around for a quick fix for this and found this plugin which works a treat. :)
Now if only that can be added to my shell script which currently automatically grabs the latest.tar.gz and rsyncs all the separate installs to promote further efficiency and laziness..
Comments(1)Remove truncation of feed feature after more tag in WordPress 2.1
If you have already upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and have the syndication feeds options set to ‘full text’, you might’ve noticed that the RSS feed for your blog post gets truncated after the use of the <!––more––> tag. This is a change in behaviour as compared to previous version of WordPress (2.0 and below) which would show the whole post in an RSS feed if the feed option was set to full text.
Without going into the debate of full vs. partial feeds (I’m on the full feeds side though ;)), there’s a WordPress plugin which does not require any additional configuration apart from just dropping it into your WordPress’s plugins directory and activating it. Get it from here.
Windows XP/2003 Automatic Update restart annoyance
I got tired of my Windows 2003 automatic installation of security updates (and restart) when they are released, so I decided to go digging around to find a way to stop that. A quick Google search got me this site, whose step 2 did the trick. Here are the steps for my configuration:
- Go to Start->Run, and type ‘gpedit.msc ‘ without the quotes and hit OK.
- Browse down to Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update.
- The settings which I changed are:
- Enabled ‘Configure Automatic Updates‘ and set it to ‘3 - Auto download and notify for install’
- Enabled ‘No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations‘
- Disabled ‘Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation‘
- Enabled ‘Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations‘ and set it to 1440 minutes
Screenshot of my Group Policy Object Editor:
As far as I know, Windows XP does not install updates automatically by default, so that might only be a default for Windows Server 2003 which I’m using. However, I believe the restart prompt is defaulted to 10mins for XP and 2003.
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