A new Wordpress blog uses an unoptimized url structure that uses numbers instead of the actual article titles. The so called permalinks need to be changed to switch from the number system to a system that is better readable for visitors and favored by the search engines. It is for instance possible to use urls [...]
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 2.7.1 Update
Seems the Wordpress developers have finally released a new version of the free blog software. The update to Wordpress 2.7.1 (from 2.7) is a maintenance release which fixes 68 tickets. It is therefor a recommended upgrade and should be applied by Wordpress webmasters as soon as possible. The Wordpress tracker which is mentioned on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]