I’ve been trying to get Wordpress’s post-by-email feature to work with image attachments. After a couple days of hacking (1.5 days of groping around in the dark, and half a day of hacking), I have mostly succeeded. 
Please hold your applause.
The catch is, it isn’t handling text in Japanese, posted from a Japanese cell phone. A [...]

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There was a release of the new Wordpress this weekend, and it looks and performs great. I’ve been working on upgrading the blogs that I manage, and I am really thrilled about the fact that I’ll never have to do it this way again–2.7 includes a self-upgrade tool.
2.7 has support for Child Themes.  Here are [...]

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Maybe you’ve been upgrading your Wordpress installation using the Subversion method (sweet and easy! if you like the command line). If so, in the update to v2.6.1 or so, perhaps you’ve gotten this error message:
Fetching external item into ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet’
svn: ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet’ is not a working copy
svn: Can’t open file ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet/.svn/entries’: No such file or directory
Yeah, me [...]

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