How to upgrade Wordpress to the latest version
Posted on December 15, 2008 - Filed Under WordPress | 4 Comments
Upgrading Wordpress to the latest version is one of those things that most bloggers would rather not have to worry about it. For one thing, it takes time, but more importantly, it can easily be messed up and thereby cause all sorts of havoc.
Recently, Wordpress 2.7 was released and the good news is that it may be the last time you ever have to upload a file to your server using FTP again! Why is this so? Well there is a new feature in Wordpress 2.7 called Core Update, which will allow you to automatically update your entire Wordpress installation via the Wordpress admin panel!
Change auto-save frequency when editing Wordpress posts
Posted on August 20, 2008 - Filed Under WordPress | 4 Comments
If you are one of the millions of people who use Wordpress, you may have noticed that when you are editing a post, Wordpress will auto-save the changes every once in a while to ensure that you do not lose your modifications because of an accident.
The default interval for auto-saving an edited or unsaved post is 60 seconds. The feature was introduced in Wordpress 2.1 and has been around ever since. It’s kind of like the MS Word auto-save feature, which I might add, has saved my life numerous times!
How to revert back to Technorati links in the Wordpress 2.3 Dashboard
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 13 Comments
Oh how I hate change! If you haven’t upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise! The new Dashboard in Wordpress 2.3 no longer displays incoming links via Technorati, but instead uses Google Blog Search! This would be fine and dandy for me if it still displayed your inbound links from other sites, but it now also displays your OWN posts as incoming links.
A complete list of anti-plagiarism and content-theft fighting WordPress plugins
Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 5 Comments
Earlier, I had written a post that tried to compile a complete list of SEO-related Wordpress plugins and since I found that list to be quite useful for myself, I thought I would write up a list of plugins that you can use to combat plagiarism and spam blogs (splogs). The reason I’m creating this list is because I am quite new to blogging and in the rat race to find good blog content, optimize the site, and market a blog, I left myself open to all kinds of content stealing attacks and eventually became the victim!
A complete list of search engine friendly (SEO) WordPress plugins for your Blog
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 12 Comments
After being on WordPress for over four months now, I thought I would compile a quick list of WordPress plugins that I’ve used to optimize my blog for search engines. I have found that most lists out there include a couple of these, so I thought I would try to create a master list of the best SEO plugins for WordPress. These SEO plugins are very useful and actually quite essential if you want your blog to rank well in Google. Most of them require little to no customization and work perfectly right after installation.
The Best Way to move from Blogger Beta to WordPress
Posted on June 24, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 9 Comments
This guide is for those people who have finally decided that they want to make the jump from the Blogger platform to the more professional and flexible WordPress platform. In the Blogger vs WordPress battle, there are way too many reasons to move to WordPress for me to list here, but you can read a couple of good posts from some other happy WordPress bloggers here:
1. http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ - Gives a good comparison of both blogging platforms with negatives and positives of each.
2. http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=71 - Quite the happy WordPress blogger!
