We are always told how important it is to back-up our blog, in case it is hacked, which does actually happen. My personal blog, Webby’s World, I am ashamed to admit, has been hacked a few times.
Backing up seems somewhat of a chore and whilst a cron job can be set up, a WordPress plug-in [...]
Have WordPress back-ups emailed
The Times are a-Changin’
As WordPress emerged the dominant self-hosted blogging platform of perhaps 2 years ago a growing ecosystem of sites and services sprung up around Wordpress.org including resources websites, premium Wordpress themes and other associated services (and yes, that was a plug for Daniel who used to also write for gHacks).
Although no official objections where ever made [...]
Flash 10 Breaks Wordpress Flash File Uploader
I have been trying to use the default Wordpress Flash uploader for the last days only to find out that it did not work at all anymore after updating Flash to version 10. Clicking on the Choose Files To Upload button did not have any effect anymore. The only solution was to use the basic [...]
Create WordPress Themes
WordPress is fantastic for the extend to which is can be customised, however if mucking around with CSS isn’t something you really want to get into personally then here are a few tools to help you out:
Artisteer
Artisteer is a new application fresh out of beta which helps you design either normal websites or a [...]
Website Caching Enabled
Website Caching is a technique to reduce the server load by sending visitors of the website static pages instead of dynamic ones. A normal request would query the database of the website and run all the commands references in the php files. That’s usually not a huge problem unless your website gets hit by a [...]
Blogs and Social Networking
Josh is a freelance blogger and trying to start his own over at extendably.com – check it out!
Like most people, my first experience with blogs was on Blogger.com. Within about a day it peed me off and I decided to check out this ‘WordPress’ thing everyone was going on about.
After trying WordPress.com I ended up [...]
Wordpress 2.6.1 released
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 [...]
