A new version of Wordpress has been released today and I’m currently in the process of updating all of my Wordpress blogs with the new version. That’s always a lot of work because I tend to prefer a manual update and not the automatic option that was implemented into Wordpress a while ago.
Over 60 fixes [...]
Wordpress 2.6.1 released
Zoundry Raven portable Blog Editor
I was never that fond of blog editors that allowed you to write your posts on the desktop and send them to your blog after you have finished them. Never quite saw a reason to install yet another software just to be able to do that. I have to admit though that some clients come [...]
Wordpress Issues
I have been working with the Wordpress script that powers this blog and several of my other for almost three years now and can say that the overall experience is quite positive. It’s easy to setup and maintain and provides a good level of customization.
So far so good. Several issues appeared over time that I [...]
Find out why text on a website is not properly displayed
Whenever I visit Chinese websites I stumble upon strange characters that do not resemble Chinese at all. When I visit the Chinese Google homepage for instance I see lots of blocks of hex code pairs but no Chinese characters at all. Since I’m probably not the only one with that problem I would like to [...]
Blogtastique
Blogtastique is a new service by Daniel, one of the resident writers here at Ghacks, which can probably be best described as a service to help beginning and advanced bloggers. The basic concept of Blogtastique is to manage different aspects of being a blog owner for the user. The interesting part is that one of [...]
Secure your server with htaccess
I apologize if this topic drifts a bit away from the usual ones you find here at ghacks but I thought it would be extremely useful for everyone who has a server or webspace that supports htaccess and htpasswd. Htaccess files can do much more than just secure a directory on your server or website but I want to concentrate on this topic because it is something that I have been using on some of my websites for a very long time to increase security.
Ways to check if a website is really down
I got the inspiration for this post from the Download Squad article “Is this web site down for everyone or is it just you ?” which mentioned a service that would check if a website was down or if it was more likely to be a problem on the user’s side. Some guys mentioned in the comments that the website checking service would display false results from time to time which in turn convinced me to write a post about other methods on how you can check if a website is up, or not.
