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Custom WordPress database error pages

Custom WordPress database error pages: This is an interesting article on how to setup WordPress to display custom database error pages and even send out an email to the owner of the blog in case of database failure.

This means that should your database fail, and someone would open your front page at example.com, he would be served that error page with a 200 OK header. If that someone were a search engine, that’s what it would index… If the search engine encounters a 500 error, it will not index that page and just wait for your server to be fixed again. That means not making sure it sends a 500 header is a huge risk.

Getting two servers in the same network …

Getting two servers in the same network segment of the same datacenter (by request) is impossible through 1and1, so I moved the blog to its own server. Weirdness should subside by tomorrow, I hope.

Just updated to wp2.3.3

I just went through and updated the blogs I run to wp 2.3.3 – nice to see them catch and release that patch so quickly.

I wonder how WordPress is handling upgra …

I wonder how WordPress is handling upgrade notifications if just the xmlrpc.php file is upgraded on the server (in this case)?

updating all wordpress installs to 2.3.3 …

updating all wordpress installs to 2.3.3.

Still looking for the elusive Paypal Ban …

Still looking for the elusive Paypal Banner Plugin for WordPress