I did it a few times but always made a search and dug WordPress code. So, just generate a new password:
and update specified user in the table wp_users:
After upgrading my WordPress to version 2.5 one thing makes me unhappy. The Flickr Photo Album plug-in didn’t work there. I use Photofox to upload pictures to Flickr and The Flickr Photo Album plug-in to insert uploaded images with appropriate size to the post. But finally Joe Tan has managed to integrate his plug-in to the WP 2.5 (many thanks to Joe for his work!). The latest version 0.96 works pretty good. But the WP doesn’t show you that this plug-in has a new version. So, visit Joe’s web site, download the latest version, install the plug-in and enjoy!
Today I moved my blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.3.1. I was afraid a bit to do that immediately right after release. Because the 2.3.1 includes a native support of tags. But I, as many other bloggers, used plug-in “Ultimate Tag Warrior”. So, I’d like to have some tool to import them. I red that post written by Leonid Mamchenkov and decided to upgrade at least my personal blog and see how it’ll be.
Except a few small problems related with out of date plug-ins everything was fine. WP script imported my old tags and linked them with posts. At the first view it was done correctly. If you’ll see something strange or get some error, please, contact me. I’ll be very appreciated for any bug-reports.
I upgraded Smart Home Blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.2. As usual the upgrade procedure is extremely easy. But there were a few troubles with that version.
1. Dashboard didn’t work properly. It gave a error
The solution is to create a file .htaccess in the directory wp-admin and add there following lines:
2. I use excellent plugin Flickr Photo Album which allows to insert photos from Flickr into your posts. So, after upgrade the image upload form disappeared.
Solution: change the line 208 from wp-content/plugins/silaspartners/flickr/class-admin.php
to
3. Post preview area was removed. Instead of that the new link ‘Preview’ was added right after form controls. It opens the post in the new window. IMHO, this is not the best improvement in that version. Personally, I prefer the old preview functionality.
Recently I upgraded my WordPress blog up to 2.1.3. Right after that I decided to change its theme. I spent many hours to look at newest WordPress themes. Then I tried to apply some interesting ones to my blog. Finally, I chose this theme. It looks nice, clear and modern. So, I moved all customizations from the previous one and I hope it works correctly.
Last week I upgraded all my blogs to WordPress 2.1.3 (this one was 1.5 
). It took just ten minutes per blog. I followed by WordPress upgrade guide. There was only a few small problems related with some old plugins. After downloaded and installed new versions of them the problems were resolved.
I’d like to say thanks to WordPress team for the excellent software! Good work, guys!
Recently I started to receive a lot of spam messages from contact form of my blog. It really makes me crazy! I hate spam and I hate spammers! Great plugin SpamKarma protects my posts but it doesn’t do anything with contact form. So, I googled it and found a patched version of Ryan Duff’s plugin. There is a customized question which helps to identify a human (2+2 by default). It can be changed easily via admin interface. Enjoy!
I started thinking about moving my photo album to the Flickr. It’s good idea. Especially because Flickr offers an excellent integration with WordPress. To insert a bar with your Flickr photos into your blog you can easily use badge. Passed just six simple steps you’ll get HTML-code with customized view to insert it into blog. It may be used to notify blog-readers about your new photos.
To integrate Flickr albums belonged to you use Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress. It allows to embed your sets into wordpress design. This is definitely what I need. I’m going to buy pro account and start to moving all my photos right after my vacation.
