I finally managed to code the Ghacks Wordpress theme the way that I can release it to the public. The theme is free for everyone who wants to use it as long as the link in the footer to my blog is remaining. The Wordpress theme is optimized to gain great exposure in the most popular search engines as well as monetized perfectly.

Categories: ghacks

The Wordpress development team is releasing new versions of their popular blogging script faster and faster. It seems that I’m doing nothing else than to update my blog with the latest version of Wordpress. While not all updates are required some are important to apply as soon as they are released to close security vulnerabilities that could lead to a compromised blog if a hacker detects that your blog is not running the latest version.

Categories: Security, The Web

I’m very proud to announce that I finally had the time to setup the new custom Ghacks Wordpress theme which you will hopefully like as much as I do. There are still a few minor glitches here and there which I have to take care of but it should be pretty solid as of now.

Categories: ghacks

The Wordpress development team released yet another update of the Wordpress blog script raising the version number to 2.2.1 in the process. This update contains several bug fixes that might have plagued some Wordpress blog owners while others – including myself – did not experience any of the bugs.

The more important part of this update is that it also fixes several security holes making it a required update for every webmaster. The vulnerabilities that have been fixed, they are:

Categories: ghacks, The Web

The blogging software Wordpress has been updated by the development team and the new Wordpress 2.2 has been published. This new version can be downloaded from the official Wordpress website. It contains over 200 bug fixes and several new features. most notably widget support. I encourage anyone who is running Wordpress to update their blog immediately even if you can live without widget support. Security concerns and the bug fixes should be enough to upload the new version at once.

Categories: Security, The Web

I’m using Wordpress as the blogging software of choice for Ghacks and all of my other blogs. After reading Paul Stamatious article on optimizing CSS for Wordpress I decided to give it a try and see if page loading times would benefit at all from it. I also had to check if the optimization would change the way my blog would be displayed or would throw up errors. I began by analyzing the page loading times of my blog without any optimization. The result for the frontpage was that my blog used 166K and that users with ISDN (128 Kbit) would have to wait 18.55 seconds before my site was fully loaded.

Categories: ghacks, Knowledge, The Web

I was getting some emails lately asking about the plugins that I have installed here at ghacks. I know that many webmasters read my blog and I thought it would be nice to write about the plugins. I also thought to write a little series of articles about setting up a blog with your own domain, please let me know if that sounds interesting enough. I have been using Wordpress since the beginning and find it really easy to administrate.

Categories: ghacks, Knowledge