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:
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.
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 blog.
Are you catering to on-the-go blog readers? If not, I’ve got 3 quick-and-easy methods to make WordPress mobile-ready.
Here’s a super-simple mobile WordPress tip from Weblog Tools Collection:
The trick is to use Google’s excellent mobile news readers to display your blog. The resulting content is not only lightning fast, it is also well formatted and relatively easy to navigate. To see for yourself, craft the following URI in your browser.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[Your Feed URI]
For example, the URL for this blog is:
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/ http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/feed/
Once you have the URL, link to it on your blog for your readers’ usage.
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In my opinion, the best WordPress plugin for displaying a gallery of photos that I’ve come across so far would have to be the NextGEN Gallery. It features a thumbnail display, integration with a snazzy Flash slideshow, JavaScript effects, a really nice administration interface, and more.
Check it out if you’re looking for a plugin for displaying photos on your WordPress blog.
Quick tip for WordPress bloggers: sign up for the mailing list (the form is at the bottom of the linked page) for stable releases of WordPress to make sure your blog stays up-to-date.
There’s an annoying bug (or feature, depending on how you look at it) in site-integrated Digg buttons that can be a particular pain for WordPress users. If you’ve added a Digg button to your post pages, you’re likely affected.
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Got a WordPress blog that you’re eager to supercharge for optimal search engine performance? Read on! We’ll cover pinging, sitemaps, canonicalization, link juice, header tags, slugs, tags, timestamping, social media, permalinks, and a whole lot more!
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