A new version of the popular blogging script Wordpress has been released by the developers yesterday. Wordpress 2.8 is the latest stable release of the blogging platform and webmasters are encouraged to upgrade their blogs as soon as possible to benefit from the changes in that version. The update adds a multitude of features and [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 9th, 2009
- Comments: 9
How to show 5 top categories in Wordpress
Wordpress is a great piece of software, and allows more than you’d think to be done with simple coding. I bet that a lot of people out there would look for a plugin to do this, but your top five categories can very easily be shown using a Wordpress template tag, just a half a [...]
Wordpress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages
A Wordpress blog post consists of a handful of elements like the title and body but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that use the same tag. One example: If you search for Windows 7 Download on Google you find that a tag page for my website Windows [...]
Wordpress: Your attempt to edit this post has failed
There are usually two areas that can cause problems and errors in a Wordpress blog. The first are plugins that produce incompatibilities or display errors while the second are problems after updates of the blog software itself.
There have been some problematic messages occasionally when trying to publish posts lately. The error message Your attempt [...]
Ask The Readers: Moving Articles To New Blog
Ghacks has seen some changes in the last two months with the addition of Jack and his Linux articles and Daniel’s web development series. A question that came up was if those two (or one of them) should be moved to a separate blog.
I still have not come to a decision and I thought it [...]
Wordpress 2.7
The Wordpress team has published version 2.7 of Wordpress yesterday. The first thing that users will notice is the new administration interface which was completely redone to optimize processes. The development team claims that nearly every task in Wordpress 2.7 will take fewer clicks than it took in previous versions of the blogging platform.
The development [...]
Wordpress 2.6.5 Security Update
The Wordpress development team has released version 2.6.5 of the blogging plattform for download. The release fixes one security update and three bugs and can be downloaded from the official Wordpress website.
Alternatively only the files wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php can be copied from the new release over the old files to update the blog. The security [...]
