To fix, find (in uploader.php):

<option value=""><?php _e('N/A',"wp-download_monitor"); ?></option>

Replace with:

<option value="0"><?php _e('N/A',"wp-download_monitor"); ?></option>

Another minor bug is that there was a missing space when using the download short code (link titles looked like VersionNumHere instead of Version NumHere).

To fix, find (in wp-download_monitor.php):

$format = '<a class="downloadlink" href="{url}" title="{version,"'.__("Version","wp-download_monitor").'", ""} '.__("downloaded","wp-download_monitor").' {hits} '.__("times","wp-download_monitor").'" >{title} ({hits})</a>';

Replace with:

$format = '<a class="downloadlink" href="{url}" title="{version,"'.__("Version","wp-download_monitor").' ", ""} '.__("downloaded","wp-download_monitor").' {hits} '.__("times","wp-download_monitor").'" >{title} ({hits})</a>';

Once I installed it, I went to it’s settings page, to be greeted with a page that said “Main settings” and nothing else.

Figuring file permissions were messed up, I started looking around. After finding that wp-content and wp-config.php were supposed to be writable, I took care of it, and I still had the same problem.

After looking around on the web, I found that if run on Windows, a few special steps were required.

With WP-Cache 2.1.2, the following steps worked for me (the original steps can be found here).

1. wp-config.php and wp-content should be writable by your web server
2. Copy wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php to wp-content/advanced-cache.php
3. Replace wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache.php with wp-cache.php (248)

In the referenced version, I performed the edits indicated here. It seems like the ob_end_clean() issue was fixed in the latest release of WP-Cache.

WordPress is the exact opposite. Installation took, as their readme said, five minutes. I could’ve stopped there, and started blogging right away.

After installing a theme, a gallery plugin, and changing some configuration items, the blog is ready to go. I’ve probably spent an hour tweaking the blog since I installed it.That’s nothing compared to what I’ve had to do with other web apps in the past.

The interface for WP’s admin backend is pretty impressive, and everything seems to “just work”.

That’s all for now.