When I get a new computer I always do a couple of things immediately upon getting to the Windows Desktop. One of those things is enabling the showing of extensions and hidden files. You should do it too, it can save tons of headaches.
Open windows explorer either via the taskbar shortcut or by computer [...]
In Wordpress 2.7, the entire Admin area was revamped and beautified. Since then, subtle enhancements have been made and I think attention has waned. Do you leave your sidebar open? I always kept it open until recently when I suddenly remembered that I can close it.
So, you should close your sidebar. You know why? It [...]
Even your neighborhood database needs a checkup every now and then. Over time, Wordpress Databases can get dirty. You can fix this easily of course if you want to manually run the Optimize function the database via phpMyAdmin but there is another solution.
Step 1 – WordPress Database Backup
This is the first step. You’re going to [...]
Yes, it is that time again. I love Wordpress to death. Yet sometimes I find it a bit silly. There must be a solution to this gripe at the very least because somehow, Facebook and many other huge sites solved it.
The Gripe
It’s about CSS and Javascript. It’s about how just about every CSS and Javascript [...]
I like to read over my blog posts from time to time, especially at the older entries since they always make me laugh. I have noticed a lag between the request time and complete rendering. Aside from the mass use of css and javascript from theme and plugins, I thought it’d be a good [...]
You can help test the Wordpress Stats 1.5 plugin by reading by reading Andy Skelton’s blog post about the new update. In brief, you can expect a no-frame expierence. I’ve always been a bit annoyed with that frame sitting there all the time, the new version looks very clean and pretty similar, just without that [...]
I was trying to update to the new version of Hybrid Theme (0.5) and I had a problem with that. For some reason, the preview page would simply be blank. When you take a look at the source for the page, you do see a single html comment that mentions that the page was not [...]
I was looking at the WP Security Scan plugin (by Michael Torbert) that was recently updated to version 2.3.8. When I was looking in the security section, I noticed the usual coming soon features but below that I also noticed some big errors like these,
Warning: ABSPATH.”wp-content/plugins/wp-security-scan//b939749eebb2ae71d663ab35c79d1381.spc is not writeable in /homepages/26/d199854844/htdocs/rrsad/wp-content/plugins/wp-security-scan/simplepie.inc on line 759
and
Warning: ./cache/bc3d4fa0be92dcdcbab71158e44da674.spc is not writeable in [...]
I’m a bit late on this wordpress Holiday but at least I didn’t miss it. Today, the 28th, is Thank a Plugin Developer Day.
I thanked the authors of my two favorite plugins at the moment, WP Super Cache and SyntaxHighlighter Plus.
I didn’t have a the chance to send thank-yous to every plugin author I could, [...]