Articles on WordPress Tips

Mass Delete Pending Comments from WordPress

When comments come in for your WordPress blog, they can be one of these three categories. Approved comments – WordPress has detected that these comments are real comments, and has immediately approved these comments Pending comments – These comments pass the spam filter, but either WordPress feels they they are some sorta “non human”, or it violates [...]

WordPress 2.7 is out!

Yes, 2.7 is out! You can download it here. Having tried out the betas for some time now, I am quite accustomed with the new interface. You’ll love the new look. And we have threaded comments, auto upgrades, instant plugin installations… Don’t want to say more. Go get it now!

WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 is Out

If you are following the WordPress releases and development at all, you will know that WordPress 2.7 will feature a totally change in layout in the admin page, making it so customizable. I’ve been trying the 2.7 betas on my personal blog at KianAnn.com, and I think the interface looks great. Anyway, today on the [...]

WordPress Security and Safe Practices Advice

If you’ve logged in to your own WordPress admin panel you would have noticed this post linked from your dashboard, but I think it deserves reiteration. Here’s what Mark Ghosh had to advice, and I think it is very good advice. 1. Always download core WordPress code from http://WordPress.org 2. Try to download plugins and themes only from [...]

Pre-scheduling Posts for Busy Bloggers

If you are like me, holding a full time job and spending most of my waking hours out and away from a home computer, you might find that it might not be easy for you to maintain a blog – or rather, at least one that has consistent updates. Then pre-scheduling your posts might be the [...]

WordPress 2.6.2 is out!

Yes, hot from the oven, WordPress 2.6.2 is out! Its an upgrade for security fixes and bug fixes, so go get it. Remember to disable your plugins and backup your old database before you make any upgrades or changes to your WordPress installation. Its easy to say “nah, it won’t happen to me”, but [...]

The Blogopreneur Theme and Plugin Shopping

Recently, I’ve been re-looking the theme for this blog and I realise that it is actually one of them most lightweight themes I have ever created. As you probably have noted, I am not a fan of fancy graphics and functionality… call me boring, but as long as the theme works to highlight what is necessary [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]
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