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 [...]

Categories: Web Development

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 [...]

Categories: Online Services

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 [...]

Categories: Software

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 [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

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 [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

I was never that fond of blog editors that allowed you to write your posts on the desktop and send them to your blog after you have finished them. Never quite saw a reason to install yet another software just to be able to do that. I have to admit though that some clients come [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have been working with the WordPress script that powers this blog and several of my other for almost three years now and can say that the overall experience is quite positive. It’s easy to setup and maintain and provides a good level of customization. So far so good. Several issues appeared over time that [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Everyone on the Internet got really excited about the recent WordPress release for iPhone users that lets iPhone users create and edit WordPress posts with their iPhone. I’m probably the only one not falling for the hype right now, let me tell you why. The iPhone has not ordinary keyboard. That’s the reason. There, I [...]

Categories: iPhone, Mobiles