WordPress plugin is an awesome way to extend the functionalities of a blog. Out of the box, WordPress is already a powerful publishing platform. However, with plugins you can enhance and customize it the way you want.
The idea of using plugin is a good one. If WordPress is about to include every single thing in its core, it would be a bloated piece of software, not to mention that it takes a lot of human resources and time to test…
WordPress blog designers and plugin developers work with remote files on a daily basis. The problem is, accessing files on your server, which is probably hosted hundreds of miles away from your geographic location may involve quite a lot of delay. Moreover, you may have to stop working if you have connectivity problems.
Fortunately there are more convenient approaches to this. Existing solutions are sub-optimal because it uses WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
Why WLMP? An Overview
Don’t get me wrong,…
Nowadays, even desktop computers are powerful enough to run server software. For blog theme designers and plugin developers, this really benefits them because they finally can install an experimental server to play with.
WAMP system by far is the most popular blogging server for desktop computers. It takes advantage of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP which are also used in production environment, but more commonly run in Linux and UNIX setup.
While Apache is able to adopt to almost every situation, it…
Just a quick heads up that WordPress 2.6 has been officially released. It is almost a month ahead schedule. If you have been waiting for this, it is time to check that out. Not yet!
When logging into your Dashboard, you will notice WordPress tells you to update your blog to the most recent version. But, be warned!
As of this writing, the plugin compatibility page still lists about 26 compatible plugins. I would be very hesitant to upgrade unless I know…
Sites and pages come and go. If you link to a press release, blog post, or any other information online, you know it will not always be there when you want them later.
Bloggers make mistakes every so often. A small mistake may break the link to other page and that is certainly not avoidable.
In 2006, Matt Cutts said that broken links will not impact search rankings. However, that may or may not have changed over the years. At least, it…