Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
Notes on upgrading to WordPress 3.0 on 1and1
Normally I’d wait until at least the x.01 release of a new WordPress before upgrading. But this time I wanted to try the new WordPress soon after the final 3.0 version was out. I still waited a few days before installing it to let other people discover and fix any initial problems. Problems and fixes My wait paid off as a number of people [...]
Renaming table prefix on WordPress 2.9
I wanted to rename the table prefix for this blog before upgrading to WordPress 3.0. I knew about the WordPress Table Prefix Rename Plugin which claimed to work for WordPress 2.x, but I couldn’t find anyone saying they had tried it specifically on WordPress 2.9. The only thing to do was to try it myself. As stated in the documentation [...]
What I’ve learnt after 100 blog posts
Today marks a significant milestone for this blog. After two and a half years I have reached my 100th post! I thought this would be a good moment to look back at what I’ve learnt from writing a hobby blog. Why I created this blog I’ve been a hobbyist website builder for about 13 years now. I’ve created a mixture of technical and [...]
Writing WordPress posts offline in Word with the help of VBA macros
If you want to write your WordPress posts offline (i.e. in a separate editor to the WordPress editor), then you may find you have to spend a fair bit of time reformatting the blog post to add any required WordPress formatting before you can publish. There are lots of reasons for wanting to write your WordPress blog posts offline. You may not [...]
Tips for upgrading to WordPress 2.9 on 1and1
A few days ago I upgraded this blog from WordPress 2.8.5 to 2.9. Here are some tips on what I did in case you run into any of the same issues that I did. My blog is hosted by 1and1 and some of the information may be specific to them. This isn’t meant as a full upgrade guide – just a collection of tips that may help you. First make sure [...]
Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.1 on 1and1
In the bad old days upgrading anything WordPress related (plugins, themes, or WordPress itself) would at best involve manually downloading a zip, extracting it locally and then using FTP to upload the changes to your web server. At worst it could require manually editing files, and making database changes. In February last year I wrote about [...]
Speeding up a WordPress blog with caching
I decided to investigate some methods of speeding up page load times on my this blog. An obvious way to do this seemed to be to add some caching to the site to reduce the load on the MySQL server. Searching for WordPress caching information gives a lot of references to adding a define('WP_CACHE', true); line to your wp-config.php file. [...]
AdSense Injection WordPress plugin tweaks
On this blog I use the AdSense Injection plugin (update: this plugin no longer seems to be available) to automatically add Google's targeted AdSense adverts to my posts. The plugin is excellent and has helped to make more money for this site but there are a few tweaks that I have done. First, I've made a modification so that if a individual [...]
Claiming your WordPress blog in Bloglines
After having claimed my blog in Technorati (see previous post) I thought I'd try to do the same in Bloglines. They have a completely different way of verifying ownership. They require you to add a hidden tag to your blog template and in one of your blog posts. They tell you what to add but they don't explain how to do it. A search on Google [...]
Quick Claiming your blog on Technorati without giving up your password
Today I had a go at claiming my blogs on Technorati. Claiming your blog gives you a bit more control over how your blog appears on the Technorati site. You can edit the blog description, add a user image and add tags. In order to claim your blog you must prove that you own it. There are two ways to do this; Quick Claim or Post Claim. Post Claim [...]
