Facebook HipHop and WordPress

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By now, the news has hit the street about Facebook’s new PHP pseudo-compiler technology that is looking set to change the PHP world once again. It is called HipHop for PHP. Here at Emmense, we build on PHP and more specifically, we build on WordPress. The PHP community as a whole continues to innovate the [...]

Changing WordPress Upload Directory File Permissions

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Quick How-to here on folder permissions to allow for WordPress image uploading. Some have reported seeing an error similar to below. This error is confusing for non-technical users. How to fix it? Well, it turns out it’s pretty easy. First, you need to make sure you have an FTP client. This will allow you to [...]

WordPress Preset Options Plugin

Late yesterday evening, my friend @immunity pointed me to Dan Gilmore’s post about hacking the database for WordPress MU to manually set options across a variety of blogs. @immunity figured there must be a better way and, indeed, there is. In fact, I had written some code while at b5media which just did this. Because [...]