Blogger.com blogs allow subscribing to comments via email!

Seriously, one of the main reasons why I would recommend everyone to get started on WordPress instead of sticking to a Blogger.com blog is because in WordPress, you can tap on the practically unlimted functionality of the WordPress plugins. One of the more popular WordPress plugins of all time has been Subscribe to Comments - allowing [...]

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 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 [...]

Is WordPress 2.2 memory greedy or is it just me?

After fiddling around with my plug-ins a little, I realise that after upgrading to WordPress 2.2, I frequently get “memory exhausted” errors like the one I faced when I was upgrading - even for the blogs that I didn’t add any plugins, I got errors when I uploaded images! So is it that WordPress 2.2 is [...]

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 [...]

Wigetizing WordPress Themes and the Blog Information Hierarchy

For a whole lot of time yesterday, I was fiddling around with the themes of some of my other blogs, and learning how to “wigetize” my sidebar - with HTML H4 headers instead of the default H2. It turned out that it was pretty easy, especially with the FAQ provided by Automattic and team. Heck, [...]

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 [...]

Blogging for small business: Should you use a free blog?

One of the most frequently asked questions I get about business blogging and website creation is “Should I use a free blog? There are, afterall, so many free blog providers out there.” My answer to this question is a simple “No”. I understand that the main concern for small business (especially startups) is cashflow and cost. [...]

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 [...]
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