So, you’re using WordPress and you just spent hours looking for the perfect theme to fit your new hybrid kitten-and-knitting blog. You upload the theme’s files into the appropriate folder, navigate to the themes page in the administrative interface, and click “activate.” So far, so good, right? Later, you notice that anytime you save a [...]
Upgrading WordPress is ridiculously easy. Between the new “one-click” automated upgrade and the automated SQL database backup plugin I use, it’s just too easy! Those darned kids nowadays will never have to go through the old methods of manually upgrading plugins and the core program. They won’t appreciate it!! They won’t!
Upon viewing your blog stats generated by the WordPress Stats plugin you see an image that looks like a bar graph with data back to 2003 with two colors, one representing “Region A” and the other, “Region B,” you’re looking at a dummy image that WordPress Stats inserts when something goes awry. (Personally, I think [...]
This is actually pretty stupid of me to do this, but I have to laugh at it. At the end of January, I was forwarded some information I was expected to post on a web site I administer. After sitting on it for awhile, I simply copied the information from the email, and pasted it [...]
I’m subscribed to the official WordPress blog so I know when new updates are released, however, it seems with the 2.5 landmark release, notification of the update appears on every page of the admin interface. There’s no way you can miss it now. Now, we just gotta get automatic upgrades without having to upload and [...]
There’s a lot of controversy going on all over the Internet and the real world over the massive use of peer-to-peer technology (P2P), and it’s legitimate and illegitimate implications. Namely, the massive amount of bandwidth P2P communications consume. Frankly, I believe the ISPs are blaming P2P users for using the available bandwidth on the network [...]
It took me some amount of time to find this answer, but it seems that WordPress will process a “ping” for your blog when a post goes live. Previously, WordPress would send a ping as soon as any post was published, regardless if a post was scheduled to go live at a later date. After [...]
