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  • Frank December 20, 2005 @ 1:48 pm

    Great news. It is pretty much a one click operation. Yahoo also installs some plugins as default if you like. The install is still beta and there were some issues establishing the database connection but I got it to work the old fashioned way.

    When you add the 2 giga mail accounts (space not deducted from the hosting plan) this is great news. Also Yahoo is not going bankrupt anytime soon.

    Permalinks still require index.php unfortunately.

  • Matt December 20, 2005 @ 4:42 pm

    I believe they have a plugin so you don’t have to have the index.php links.

  • Frank December 20, 2005 @ 5:52 pm

    I have activated the plugin but no luck. By the way the install only worked because after the “one click” install I got an error message saying the database could not connect so I found the config.php and had to enter the data manually as you would normally do with an FTP upload. I already have 5 wordpress blogs on Yahoo (which work really well) so can install manually but they should be aware their current beta process does not work. Where to trouble shoot this…

  • vern December 20, 2005 @ 10:02 pm

    Does WP get anything out of this in terms of monetary profit or do you just think Yahoo’s deal is just this great? I don’t mean to be negative but this seems like a lot of hype for something that Fantastico essentially does. If you are, then great, more time for WP development.

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  • Marc December 20, 2005 @ 11:05 pm

    Glad to see this go live. Congrats to the WordPress folks on getting exposure from a big player.

  • Matteo December 21, 2005 @ 5:28 am

    I agree for the boost over WordPress Plattform but I think this isn’t a great service: it’s expensively and you know that a wordpress update isn’t so difficult ;)
    There are so many good Cheap Domain Registrars and Free/Cheap Domain Hosting Providers…

    Greetings, Matteo

  • Stefano December 21, 2005 @ 10:39 am

    What to say… just congratulations!! You are doing a great work making WP gettina market leader in it’s segment and reached a lot of goals in this last year and I’m sure more will come.

    Oh.. and Merry Xmas :)

  • adam December 22, 2005 @ 12:32 am

    yahoo should do a little self-governing. what an “asshole” of a company. first-off – i’m a web/graphic designer. i’m savvy enough to know “enough.” here’s my beef: their PHP support sucks. they also throw in a little spyware into YOUR OWN CODE if you host on yahoo small business. they can’t do what i want to pay them to do. they also seem to think it’s necessary to throw in their own spy code regardless if you’re a paying customer or not. at least google makes no bones about taking over the world. they do it for free.

  • michael January 17, 2006 @ 1:23 pm

    Second post #14 by adam.

    If you run a yahoo hosted store like we do; the blog will be installed into a subdirectory and no way out.

    i.e url in browser will always say: http://www.site.abccompany.com/blog instead of abccompany/blog/com

    ( spent 2 hrs with techsupport – ok 45 minutes of it was holding for somebody) .

    I am by no means code savy but my other blogs hosted on a c-panel platform are a breeze to set up and mantain.

    Good intentions but no cigar :(

  • Daan Jansen April 12, 2007 @ 11:07 pm

    Great blog keep up the good work

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