This might be very obvious to some, but about 70% of the clients I work with do not know the difference and spend money on something they could be getting for free! If you have a blog or would like a blog it is essential that you know the difference between WordPress, wordpress.com and wordpress.org. [...]

Categories: Advice, Open Source

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

When someone starts learning web development they usually start with HTML and CSS, and many people get stuck there without ever experiencing the wonderful workd of server side scripting like PHP or ASP. I’ll be talking about PHP here, but the basic rules for ASP and others are the same though. The most important thing [...]

Categories: Web Development

WordPress is displaying 20 comments per page in the admin interface. This might not be a problem for users who usually get a handful of comments per day but it forces webmasters with hundreds of comments per day to flip through the pages quite often. The 20 comments per page figure is actually the figure [...]

Categories: The Web

I’ve only been using 2.7 for a but, since I’m more building sites than blogging nowadays, but I have to say I love it. It looks much, much better, navigation is a bit unusual but overall easier, the whole structure is more logical than ever. However, as a coder working with WordPress on a day [...]

Categories: Open Source, Tools

The WordPress team has published version 2.7 of WordPress yesterday. The first thing that users will notice is the new administration interface which was completely redone to optimize processes. The development team claims that nearly every task in WordPress 2.7 will take fewer clicks than it took in previous versions of the blogging platform. The [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

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

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 [...]

Categories: The Web