Articles on WordPress Tips

Category or Tag?

With WordPress 2.3, I believe many more bloggers are using the native tagging mechanism. Its brilliant, and its a feature that many power users of WordPress have been yearning for. But if you are just getting started on blogging - you might wonder: Should you put this as a category, or a [...]

Reoptimizing Blogopreneur

I didn’t have much sleep last night, because I decided to relook at the codes behind Blogopreneur.com and re-optimize it with the new knowledge I have learnt since the last time I scrutinized the theme. It was also time for me to adapt and embrace the structural changes of WordPress 2.3 - particularly, the [...]

WordPress memory exhausted errors

Of late, WordPress has been giving me “memory exhausted” errors like this, on and off, whenever I uploaded images. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 73400320 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1 bytes) in /home/thebears/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1453 Today it finally broke on me on my admin pages, and I could hardly change any settings. [...]

WordPress keyboard shortcuts - compose your post without your mouse

If you are… Using WordPress Have your visual editor turned off Are used to using keyboard shortcuts in applications like Ms Word …you might wanna check out this tip by the Weblog Tools Collection on WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts - it makes typing your blog post a lot faster. Yes, this post was done without touching my mouse. But [...]

WordPress is not the system for everything

These few days I’ve really been playing around with WordPress, using it as the backend system running a couple of sites, and it is really a great and fast system to get started as a simple CMS to manage a few pages. However, as some of the sites grew more complicated, I also realised I’m stretching [...]

WordPress upgrade almost broke my blog!

Phew! I felt I learnt a lesson today… to follow instructions! I was upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.2, and halfway along my installation process, along came an unfriendly error message that went something like this! Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) The main page of the blog was still up running, [...]

WordPress Theme and Plugin developers, please document your code!

Over the past few days (actually it was on and off for the past few weeks!), I was spending a lot of time trying to optimize one of the popular themes provided in the WordPress themes directory. One of my clients wanted to have that look and feel of the theme… but the underlying [...]

WordPress 2.2 is out!

Yes… WordPress 2.2 is out with widgets integrated in the core code - no longer as plugins. Need to spend time upgrading all installations now. Geeez.

5 great reasons to use WordPress sidebar widgets

Ah… widgets! These teeny weeny yet extremely powerful pieces of code that allow you to practically manage your blog easier than if you were playing scrabble - simply lift piece off your palette and drop them on the desired position on your sidebars, and everything else just flows in place. Click “save changes”, and [...]

Desktop blog editors? Why not use WordPress?

These few days, I’ve taken a look at a couple of desktop blog editors like Performancing, BlogJet and w.Bloggar. While most of them work really fine as powerful desktop blog editors, I somehow prefer using the native WordPress admin console, partly because of familiarity, and also, I wanted the functionality of my WordPress Plug-ins like Ultimate [...]
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