I have been using WordPress ever since I started blogging here on Ghacks in 2005. It has been a pleasant ride most of the time, with the occasional rough bump down the road. As a WordPress administrator, you have access to thousands of different plugins that extend or improve the blog’s functionality. One issue that [...]

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms currently available on the Internet. Popular sites like Techcrunch, Gizmodo or yours truly are all powered by WordPress. Users who are just getting started have a few options at their disposal. They can start with a blog over at WordPress.com, get their own website and self-host [...]

Categories: Software, Web Development, Windows

A new version of the popular blogging software WordPress has just been released. WordPress admins should already see update notifications in the dashboards of the blogs that they administrate. The update is also already advertised on the official WordPress website. It is as usually possible to update the blog right away from within the admin [...]

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The developers of the popular blogging platform WordPress have released version 3.3 just a few minutes ago. WordPress 3.3 update notifications should appear right in the admin interface of the blog. Users can use the internal updater to update from within the admin interface, or by downloading the new version from the official site to [...]

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Content scraping is a big issue on today’s Internet, and a challenge for search engines to get it right. It basically comes down to the question of attribution. Who is the original author of a piece of content and on which website was it published first. Search engines get that right most of the time. [...]

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I recently noticed that my WordPress blog’s page loading times increased through the roofs which made me reevaluate everything that contributed to the loading times of the website. I implemented a few changes on the blog to improve page loading times. I first got rid of the three social networking buttons pointing to Google Plus, [...]

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Maybe you have spotted one of the recent changes on Google search results pages already. Some website listings, Lifehacker’s for instance, display an author profile photo next to their listing in the Google search results. This only happens on pages where a single author can be easily identified, which is the case for most blog [...]

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WordPress is displaying an admin bar since version 3.1 release that administrators can use to access the blog’s backend when they are on the frontend. The bar displays options to add new contents, edit the current page, open the dashboard, comment moderation or appearance settings of the blog. I personally dislike the new WordPress admin [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

About a week after the push to version 3.2 comes the next WordPress update. Updates that follow quickly after a major release are usually either security or bug related. According to WordPress, version 3.2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON, and a few other issues that came up after [...]

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