860 Reasons Why You Need Spam Filters On Your Blog

Stop Comment Spam

Here are 860 reasons why you need spam blockers to protect your blog. At least, if you are on WordPress, activate the Akismet plugin. It stops most spams.

I Thought I Have Lost It All

WordPress Life Saver

You received an Internal Server Error from your WordPress site. What can you do? Depends on the cause. Here is how I recovered mine recently. Have a read.

Scheduling Your Blog Entries

Past Blogging Schedule

Do you schedule your Blog posts? Have you tried the Edutorial Calendar WordPress plugin? Is it the best blog scheduling plugin? Read about it. What says you?

WordPress Wins The Hall Of Fame CMS of [Packt] Open Source Awards 2010

Packt-OS-AWARDS

[Packt] Hall of Fame CMS category goes to WordPress. After winning the Overall title last year, this year it’s the Hall of Fame. The Open Source Awards is sponsored by [Packt] Publishing every year. Who wins this year’s awards and categories? Check it out yaa..

Why You Should Use WordPress In Your Online Business

WordPress 2.9.1

Online Businesses should be using WordPress to build their online presence. Why use WordPress in your business on the Internet? You can probably find the answer easily available all over the web. But rather than going all over the net, I’ve got a few of them here for you. Read on till the very end, there’s a special surprise for my loyal readers.

Windows Live Spaces Users, Are You Ready For WordPress.com?

Windows Live Spaces To Wordpress.com

The Windows Live Spaces blogging service is closing down. They are partnering with Wordpress.com to migrate all their users into the Wordpress.com platform. 30 million+ users and their traffic coming on board Wordpress.com. Will surely test Wordpress’ scalability.

Running With WordPress 3.0 – Quite A Challenging Upgrade But Worth It

WordPress 3.0

After many months of waiting, WordPress 3.0 was finally released to the public a couple of days back. So, I decided to just jump in and upgrade this site to the latest version. As always, I just clicked on the Automatic Upgrade option in the WordPress Dashboard. The core upgrade went without a problem. No [...]

WordPress OptinPop Is A Great Plugin For List Building

Configure Settings For Optin Pop

Want a tool to help you in building a mailing list? There is a WordPress plugin that can help you build your list. Check out WordPress OptinPop Plugin. I’ve been giving this plugin a run around for a few weeks. I like it. You will too.

WordPress 2.9.1 Released And WordPress MU 2.9.1 Is In The Pipeline

WordPress 2.9.1

WordPress 2.9.1 fixes 2 main bugs in the recent 2.9 release of WordPress. If you are running 2.9, update your site now, or as soon as possible. Especially if you’ve got posts scheduled in the future.

WordPress 2.9.1 Update In The Pipeline

Wordpress 2.9 Carmen Update

Wordpress 2.9 was recently released. The new version brought with it some new features that makes blogging and web site maintenance easier. For those waiting for it to stabilize before upgrading, Wordpress 2.9.1 is coming soon too.

Make A Short URL Of Your WordPress Posts And Pages – Short Tutorial

URL Cubes

Make Short URLs of your Wordpress posts and pages on your own domain. You don’t need to install any plugins nor programs on your hosting. Follow this tutorial. Just copy and paste into two files and you will automatically have your own short urls automatically created by Wordpress.

Changing WordPress Theme – Part I

Flexibility2 on KodeeXII.Net

Blogs and websites goes through change quite a number of times throughout their existence. As they say, the only constant thing in this world is change. KodeeXII.Net is also undergoing change at the moment. You don’t see it yet. Change is happening in the background.

At the moment, I’m focusing on changing the theme. Have any suggestion or recommendations?

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 – A First Hand Look And Review

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Dashboard

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 has just been released for public consumption recently. This new version of WordPress really is worth upgrading to. The most obvious improvement can be seen in its Administration back-end interface. The revamped Dashboard really is a sight for sore eyes. Many are probably tired of the old interface. Thus 2.7 really is a breath of fresh air to many. Why am I so excited about this new version of WordPress? I am probably not alone in feeling this way too. Read on and find out why many have touted WordPress as the best blogging tool there is.

Prevent a WordPress Vulnerability Exploit – Upgrade to 2.6.2

Wordpress 2.6.2 Lead Image

Wordpress just released their 2.6.2 version. This update include a vulnerability patch. Existing Wordpress users who allow registrations on their sites should update to this release. Your users’ password can be modified by the bad guys if you don’t upgrade. You wouldn’t want your users annoyed by having their passwords modified randomly for them do you?

Will A Sitemap Help Boost Search Engine Traffic?

XML Sitemap Generator

One method to ensure your website is properly indexed by the search engines is to include a sitemap of your site. The sitemap protocol is supported by the major search engines. As such, by including sitemap.xml into your website, your website has better chance of being index accordingly by all the major search engines.

Yahoo! Media Player for WordPress Audio Playback

Yahoo! Icon

After reading BK’s comment about the quality of audio playback from this post, I have been on a lookout for a WordPress media player that will play my mp3 files correctly in both IE and Firefox. Thus, very recently, I stumbled upon this particular blog entry which provided me with the solution. Yahoo! Media Player [...]

Enter the WordPress Premium Theme Club

WPDesigner $5 Themes Club Banner

Are you constantly looking for premium WordPress themes? If you are, then this piece of news may interest you. It’s available in your WordPress Admin page. Apparently, the owner of WPDesigner, better known as Small Potato, has just launched a new club of sort. A club he calls – “$5 Themes Club”. Members of this [...]

WordPress Test Environment with WAMPServer 2.0 .. Pt II

WAMPServer 2.0 phpMyAdmin

In Part I of this WordPress test Environment on WAMPServer 2.0 Series, I’ve explained briefly on the process of installing WAMPServer into a Windows PC. If you just joined us, and have not gone through Part I, you might want to take a peek at it first. Of course, if you are familiar with the [...]

WordPress Test Environment with WAMPServer 2.0 .. Pt I

WAMPServer 2.0 Installation Location

In last week’s post, I mentioned about running a locally installed WordPress on your PC (running Windows, if you are running on another OS, this may not cut it for you) as test environment. Now, some of you might be asking if it’s really very hard to do so. Well, the truth is, its really [...]

WordPress 2.3.2 .. Upgraded

WP232 Announcement

Roughly 60 days or so after the release of WordPress 2.3.1, a new release is made available. About 3 days, back, I saw the announcement in the WordPress Admin module. Here’s what is mentioned in the WordPress Development Blog: WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to [...]

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