Tag Archive for 'WordPress'

My Impressions on WordPress 3.0

If you haven’t yet updated your WordPress installation, I highly recommend making the upgrade to WP 3.0. Whether you’re using the software as a content management system (CMS) or simply just a blog, WordPress is flexible enough to cater to just about anyone’s individual needs as a web designer. As for me, I use WordPress [...]

WordPress “Matrix” Easter Egg Trick | Fun WP Tricks

Here’s a neat trick that all WordPress users can experience. I discovered this while playing around yesterday with the “comparison” feature of the “Edit Post” page. Although it’s probably a lot more fun when it happens to you unexpectedly, it’s still worthwhile to check this out, as the odds of randomly encountering this feature are [...]

How to Protect Your WordPress Blog from Spam

If your blog doesn’t authenticate new comments by using a CAPTCHA test, then it shouldn’t be long before you begin receiving a steady amount of spam each and every day with your WordPress blog. Akismet is a plug-in that comes standard with your WordPress installation, and it does a great job of identifying your spam [...]

Problems with WordPress 2.9: Pings Failing to Alert the Google Blogging Service

WordPress 2.9.1 just released, and it fixed some minor bugs from WordPress 2.9. This is just a theory, but I think that the reason my blog posts weren’t being indexed in Google as quick as they usually were was due to a glitch in the WordPress update, causing certain server configurations to fail when attempting [...]