Great article over at Vandelay Design for anyone interested in hacking WordPress categories. Really helpful.

Found a great WordPress plugin for automatically generating/updating a Google sitemap file for a blog. It’s called Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress and it’s pretty slick. Had some nice debugging features to help out developers with odd environments, too. The one problem, and I saw this coming, was that the entire blog directory must be writable by the script, which in some environments means it must be 777. Groan.

More permissions issues. After installed WordPress 2.71, make sure /wp-content/ is writable by WordPress, or you will have to manually add the /wp-content/uploads/ directory and make it writable by WordPress. This could very likely take the form of 777 permissions (groan).