I received an email from Matthew a few hours ago who asked if there was a possibility to exclude certain categories from my website from appearing in the RSS feed. I was really busy with a website that I purchased earlier this morning and could not answer immediately. The good news is that it is [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

Up until recently we have been using the WordPress plugin Akismet for anti spam protection. Akismet is supplied with every WordPress installation and needs to be enabled with an api key that is freely available after registering an account at the WordPress website. There have been a few problems with Akismet’s anti-spam scanner in recent [...]

Categories: Web Development

A new version of the popular blogging script WordPress has been released by the developers yesterday. WordPress 2.8 is the latest stable release of the blogging platform and webmasters are encouraged to upgrade their blogs as soon as possible to benefit from the changes in that version. The update adds a multitude of features and [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

WordPress is already well optimized when it comes to SEO (that’s Search Engine Optimization). There are some basic changes that are usually performed like changing the link structure to include the title of the articles or displaying the title of the article in the web browser’s title. Most users stop here, some go ahead and [...]

Categories: The Web

I run another popular site together with Everton of Connected Internet. The site I’m talking about is Windows 7 News, a highly popular and well ranked, website about the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7. A reader contacted us earlier today mentioning a problem that he was encountering when trying to view the feed of [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, The Web

WordPress is a great piece of software, and allows more than you’d think to be done with simple coding. I bet that a lot of people out there would look for a plugin to do this, but your top five categories can very easily be shown using a WordPress template tag, just a half a [...]

Categories: Web Development

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

You might have already noticed that the WordPress theme has been changed here at Ghacks to a more minimalistic theme. I think the new theme combines an excellent design with good readability. The theme will be tested in the coming days to see if problems of any kind are experienced while displaying the new WordPress [...]

Categories: ghacks

If you run a WordPress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme. Perhaps you want to show your tags, not just categories, perhaps you want the date in a different format, you might want to add the URL of the author to each post, there are a lot of things [...]

Categories: Web Development