Category Archives: meta

The quickest way into WordPress when you’re locked out.

I love WordPress as a platform for building sites. But no matter how many times I see it, I don't think I'll ever get used to having this snippet available to me if I get locked out of a WordPress install : <?php wp_set_password('new_admin_password',1); // this changes the password for user with an id of [...]
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How to fix a WordPress site when the database corrupts on you.

Phew! ... and as soon as I say this, the database powering this site corrupts on me - charming! For one awful moment I thought I had lost everything (I hadn't set up a regular mysql backup task for this blog), but thankfully, bringing this blog back from the dead was surprisingly straight forward. Here's [...]
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Not quite sure what I’m doing with this site

I'm currently trying to work out what this site is for at the mo, after looking at the sites of a few of my friends and work colleagues', and finding a degree of inspiration to finally get this site sorted out, so it's something I'd be prepared to actively tell people about. Since discovering that [...]
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On blogging as a way to work out what you’re thinking

I really like how this recent post by Adam Greenfield starts. I'm normally in awe of his writing, and how vivid the picture is that he paints, of a near future of networked urbanism, and well thought through design. Seeing this disclaimer today makes him seem so much more fallible, and well... more like the [...]
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Rebooting

...and chrisadams.me.uk is now a WordPress site running on Joyent. There are various traces of me around the internet, and I've made, many, many abortive attempts at starting a habit of writing online, and aggregating all my online activity in one place so I have one definitive online identity to point people to. But they've usually run [...]
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