Monthly Archives: March 2008

WordPress vs. WordPress MU: A Comparison

July 2010 Update: WordPress MU has been incorporated into WordPress 3.0 and later, so some of these differences are no longer relevant. Although WordPress and WordPress MU share somewhere around 95% of the same code, there are many more differences between the two than just multi-blog support. Here’s a thorough analysis: Read more »

WordPress 2.5 Features

WordPress 2.5 has been officially released! (You can download it here.) A major upgrade, WordPress 2.5 packs a boatload of new features. Here are many that were listed in the official announcement at the WordPress Development Blog: Read more »

7 Tips for the WordPress “Write Post” Page

Here are 7 useful tips related to WordPress’s “Write Post” page. Read more »

WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 Released

This morning, the WordPress Development blog published a WordPress 2.5 sneak-peak that highlights some new features and changes in WordPress’s administration back-end (specifically, with regards to the Dashboard, admin navigation, the Write pages, and the Manage pages). Read more »

Make WordPress and Firefox Adblock Play Nice

This potential problem is applicable to those using the following, which is probably quite a few people: Firefox with the highly popular Adblock or Adblock Plus extensions WordPress with the visual editor enabled As part of its functionality, Adblock inserts a tab next to Flash objects, etc. to make blocking that object as easy as [...] Read more »

How to Include Code in WordPress Posts

If you’ve ever tried to insert code into a WordPress post, one of the following has probably happened to you: Your HTML code was rendered as such. WordPress stripped the code from the post entirely. WordPress turned "straight quotes" into “curly quotes” — not good if you want your users copying/pasting code from your blog! [...] Read more »

How to Turn Off WordPress’s Visual Editor

Don’t like WordPress’s visual editor? Turn it off: Read more »

BuddyPress: Turning WordPress into a Social Network

It was announced just yesterday that BuddyPress, a project that aims to turn WordPress MU into a social network, has been acquired by Automattic to help continue its development. Read more »

How to Optimize Your WordPress Database Tables

As time goes on, all the database operations performed on your WordPress tables (which are what store your blog posts and other data) will create what’s called “overhead.” To keep your database running smoothly, you can get rid of this overhead by “optimizing” your tables (similar to defragmenting your hard drive). Here are two ways [...] Read more »

How to Integrate Feedburner into WordPress

Feedburner is a free, Google-owned service that provides great feed statistics and services to bloggers and other feed publishers. Here’s how to integrate Feedburner with a self-hosted WordPress blog: Read more »