Blogging with WordPress is an easy, quick way to get your posts to viewers without sitting down and plugging through an entire website of code yourself. However, there are certain aspects of the program that cause some users pause. For example, many posts benefit from a nice, clean thumbnail seated just to the left of [...]

Categories: Web Development

An update to the popular blogging platform WordPress has just been released that fixes a critical security vulnerability in the software. WordPress 3.0.4 is already available for download at the official website and through the updating options on installed WordPress blogs. The update is currently not announced on the frontpage of the admin interface which [...]

Categories: Security

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 [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced

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 [...]

Categories: Software

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 [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web