I was running wordpress 2.0.5 since 2 years and did not get time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.

So I decided last week to upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 and I did. I upgrade the same way how wordpress advice us here.

After installation, I did notice it has migrated my categories tables to wordpress 2.3 Terms tables but nothing migrated from Tags tables. I was surprised! Did I make any mistake? Then it comes into my mind, it is Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, which has created those tables for me not Wordpress.

Now I had to migrate those tags from Tags table to Terms tables. So I wrote a script that does that job for me. I thought let me make that available to you, if someone would like to extend the script and build a smart plugin! (more…)

Now it is so easy to add videos from 1000s of video sharing sites to WordPress blog with the Post to WordPress button

To make this video embedding process easier Vodpod introduced a “Post to WordPress” browser tool that works with hundreds of video sites and makes it easy to grab a video and publish it to your WordPress blog.

Tonny Bibbs has some questions regarding this deal. How does this going to affect PHP?

There are some news long time ago regarding “Zend and Microsoft partnered over a year and a half ago to improve native support for PHP under Windows and IIS”.

Maybe this is a good thing for PHP? Maybe there will be zero impact? What about technologies at Yahoo!?

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