WordPress Articles — WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Design, WordPress Plugins

WordPress without a doubt is the most popular blog software exists on the market right now and recently people have been using it not only to setup a blog but also manage web site content. WordPress comes with the popular 5-minute installation process and that partly contributes to the success, I believe.

However, out of the box, WordPress installation can do much better when it comes to WordPress security. I suppose they have to limit the number of options available during…

A search in National Vulnerability Database for the term wordpress revealed very interesting statistics. Over the years, WordPress has increasing number of vulnerabilities, from 2 in 2004 to 63 in 2007.

Although it is an apple to orange comparison, because WordPress is usually compared head to head with Drupal and Joomla, here is a comparison table showing statistical data of those content management systems:

From the table above, you notice that the more complex CMS solutions have larger number of vulnerabilities in recent…

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…

How effective WordPress search can be? If you’ve been using WordPress for anything beyond posting simple web content, you should find that it lacks in certain search options. For example, it doesn’t even allow you to search for pages, not to mention comments, excerpts and other options like searching only approved pages and comments.

Dan Cameron has a useful WordPress plugin that tries to solve this problem. The plugin is properly named Search Everything (SE). You should use this plugin too…

Selling advertising space is one of the most favorite monetization models for blogs. Over the years, interested parties have developed plugins related to managing ads on your blog pages.

While none of the free plugins are currently available to accept payments from the advertisers directly, some of them are really powerful, including the capability to rotate ads, add credits based on different parameters (impressions, clicks, date, or all of them), widget enabled, user-friendly stats and more.

The list is sorted alphabetically.

1. Ad-minister…

This blog runs on WordPress simply because I am more familiar with the blog platform than Movable Type as of now. I firmly believe a blog is a tool. Business bloggers and independent publishers who want to use a blog for their business should really start with an ultimate outcome and strategic plan.

A blog may not even be the most suitable tool for your business and marketing strategy. Integrating a blog into your marketing mix is only feasible if you…

If you’ve ever started a blog, you know how hard it is to find a WordPress theme that is suitable for your blog. It’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. Once you find it, you may be disappointed by the fact that the theme requires you to keep the link back to the author’s site intact.

Some bloggers may not even realize about it. I am not here to be the sponsored theme police, but…

If I am to start…

I am always impressed with the amount of free information available to help others solve WordPress problems. The sad thing is, most people don’t enjoy the benefit of these resources. A lot of people go straight to forum and other support mechanisms provided by the official site or individual sites they know.

They are free to get all support they can get, but often faster answers come from doing their own research. Knowing how to ask the right questions saves a…

Recently a security exploit in WordPres is taking the blogosphere by storm. It is a new kind of exploit because rather than defacing, taking the site down, inserting links to the footer or other obvious attacks, it tries to conceal its existence.

It works just like a simple cloaking script, but this time it covers its appearance from the owner and repeat visitors. Those who have cookie set for that domain by the browser will see the blog as if nothing…