Michael S. Clark

I was looking for a way to use WordPress permalinks under IIS6 without having to use a custom 404 handler, and after some searching, I came across this:

This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly.
Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting URLs, so [...]

I’ve joined Twitter and add a feed widget.

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress.
Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range.
That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL to operate. [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work).
Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any POSTed [...]

I’ve added PicLens support to all of my galleries.
The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images.
I’ve zipped up the code here.