Articles on WordPress Tips

Messing with .htaccess is no fun!

A friend of mine was posting to our common Yahoo! Group, asking for assistance with his WordPress blog. What he was facing was that his permalinks weren’t working. They all ended up pointing to the 404 error file. What was the error? I think he messed up with his .htaccess file! Its [...]

Doing a Trackback in Blogger and WordPress

Yesterday someone asked me what a Trackback was, how it works, and then after explaining, asked me how to do a trackback in Blogger. I understand that some blogging terms are apparently not very easy to understand, especially for the not-so-IT-savvy. Let me clarify. Well. To put it simply, A trackback or pingback is [...]

Blogspot is down!

Yes! As of NOW (09:27hrs GMT +8), all blogspot blogs are DOWN! Surf on to ANY Blogspot page and you get the same message! Man… how many heads are going to roll because of this? Imagine all the blogs making money from traffic by the minute… they are going to lose all their [...]

Using WordPress MU 1.0 - Subdomains or Subdirectories?

WordPress announced the release so WordPress MU 1.0 and bbPress! Finally, after over a year of development (according to the post), its ready! For the uninitiated, WordPress MU is the multi-user version of WordPress… well, I’d say its more “multiple blogs”, instead of multi-user, since WordPress already allows for multiple authors. I’ve tried the beta WordPress [...]

Handling blog comments

Most webmasters will know, wherever and whenever we have a website or blog that allows comment input from the public, we get three types of input… Good comments, bad comments and spam comments! Let’s go into how you deal with each! Good comments Do we have to deal with good comments, you’d ask? Oh yes! I’d use [...]

How Valuable is Original and Quality Content?

Today, with more and more individuals making their way online to make money, there is a HUGE demand for good content. Afterall, it is a good content that draws readers back to a website every day. People search online for information - information that is useful for their own use. Fortunately or unfortunately, the [...]

WordPress as a CMS

A moment ago I was working on my training company website, only to realise that my implementation to tweak WordPress to display a custom home page and the blog as a subdirectory didn’t work out too well when the blog posts flowed over to more than one page. What I was doing originally was to simply [...]

Integrating Forums and WordPress - bbPress!

Have you ever wanted to integrate a forum with your blog? From the creators of WordPress, you have bbPress 0.72! Actually, bbPress has been around since some time. The software came about because the creators of WordPress were originally using another forum software - miniBB - and they found it getting slow with the [...]

Comparing WordPress and Joomla

Over the past few weeks, I have been telling people about being able to use WordPress to get their site up and serve as the CMS running behind, and most of them will ask me to compare WordPress and Joomla. I surfed on and found an superb article comparing WordPress to Joomla. The article in [...]

Google’s Ping Service

Just read this off the Google Blog that it has launched its own ping service just a week ago. Just in case you are wondering what this ping thing is about. Here’s what you get from the About Google Blog Search Pinging Service FAQ: The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is a way to [...]
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