Feb
27th
2008
Have you ever heard of Microsoft TweakUI or similar programs that provide a variety of options to tweak and finetune your operating system? Well, I thought, why can’t something similar be done for WordPress? Introducing WordPress Tweaks: a plugin that adds a variety of extra toggle-on/off options to WordPress. Read more »
Feb
26th
2008
Not all visitors to your WordPress blog will be familiar with RSS feeds or how they work, while some other visitors just don’t want to mess with using a feed reader. RSS isn’t the only push-delivery method out there: email subscription is another great service to offer to your visitors. Read more »
Feb
19th
2008
Update (3/29/08): WordPress 2.5 has been released! Check out my extensive, updated WordPress 2.5 features list. The release date for WordPress 2.5 is March 10! Here’s a sneak-peak of some of the planned features: Read more »
Feb
18th
2008
According to Macromedia, the typical method of embedding Flash on a website is using the following HTML, replacing “myFlashMovie.swf” with the filename: Read more »
Feb
11th
2008
Setting posts to auto-publish at a specified date in the future is a simple WordPress trick to help you “work ahead” with your blog, which is great for those times when you’re in the blogging mood. Here are the steps: Read more »
Feb
8th
2008
Have you tried to enable “Pretty Permalinks” but the change doesn’t show up on your blog? I have, and I’ve successfully used this tactic buried in the WordPress Codex’s Using Permalinks article under the “Fixing .htaccess Generation Issues” section. This only applies if your web host is using Apache (if you aren’t sure, chances are [...] Read more »
Feb
7th
2008
Ever wondered what the difference is between a trackback and a pingback? They both let you know when someone else has blogged about one of your posts, and the terms seem to be used interchangeably at times — so what’s the deal? The WordPress Codex’s Introduction to Blogging article has a good explanation: Read more »
Feb
6th
2008
Once when installing WordPress MU, after submitting the form in the setup wizard, I got the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_die() I did extensive research a la Google, and lots of other people seemed to have the problem [1, 2, 3], but I still couldn’t find the answer. Read more »
Feb
5th
2008
A WordPress security update has been released this morning. From the announcement on the WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that [...] Read more »
Feb
5th
2008
Doing some WordPress theme-hunting? Here’s a checklist of things to look for in a good WordPress theme that’ll hopefully help you narrow down the choices: Read more »
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