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WordPress 2.1.2 Critical Update!

The peeps have at WordPress announced a very critical update WordPress 2.1.1 users. Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. My oh my, this message has to [...]

WordPress Include Tags

The WordPress documentation on Include Tags listed four different functions which template developers can use to in their templates: <?php get_header(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php comments_template(); ?> Most templates in the WordPress themes directory use these set of functions, simply because they are used with the default Kubrick template, and according to the documentation, these functions provide the additional functionality [...]

WordPress 2.1.1 and 2.0.9

Yes, I’m back up with my new hard disk - rushed down to Sim Lim square and got myself a Seagate SATA 80GB for S$107. Cheapest SATA I could find in the short time I have to spend there. So I’m back up. Yeah, I guess I’d pay S$107 for less frustrations. Good [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out!

For once, I’m going to tell you to hold on tight, back up your files, stop eating, stop watching television and stop blogging! Its time to upgrade to WordPress 2.1! Finally! Autosave features, tabbed editor… I’m not going to type more! Head of over to the download page now!

10 Practical Ways to Use a Blog

I’ve made a couple of posts earlier in this blog, emphasising that the term “blogging” is perceived in very different ways by different people. The blogging platform is just a tool. How you use a tool depends on how creative you can be! Today I share 10 very practical ways in which [...]

WordPress 2.0.6 is out

WordPress 2.0.6 is out 3 hours ago, and after reading their updates on the development blog, I think the update that I am interested in is this - “Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.” Go get the latest version of WordPress now.

My Blog Marketing Articles Blog

A couple of days back I was telling you guys about me going all out to try out other platforms to learn. Here’s one of the other blogs that I started, on the WordPress.com platform - Blog Marketing Articles for Thought. However, I’m not marketing it as vigorously as this one and also not [...]

Google says : No more images near your ads

Google has finally cleared up the policy of having images near their ads, and here’s what they said: We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that [...]

To be a top blogging trainer in Singapore, I must learn more!

I figured out a couple of days ago that if I want to really make a good living out of blog marketing, training people on blogging, and advising corporations in Singapore how to establish their blog to reach out to their stakeholders, I must learn more than WordPress and its plugins. While WordPress is a brilliant [...]

How to make conversations work for blogs

In order for you to be able to make conversations work for your blog, you need to be updated whenever a new comment has been posted on your blog. While it would be good to respond to comments as and when you see them, nothing really beats the ability to respond to comments immediately! I’m [...]