September 5, 2009
Lorelle has news that older versions of WordPress are being attacked. Symptoms include: odd additions to permalinks - "eval" and "base64_decode". Your blog's permalinks will no longer work. a new administrator account, perhaps named Administrator (2), created but not by you. This can happen even if registration is turned off on your blog. If you haven't upgraded, DO IT NOW. As of... Read more
August 28, 2009
This post is about moving a self-hosted WordPress blog from one web host to another. If you're wanting to move from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress, that's a very much easier process, which will be covered in the next post. Image by Nion My worst every serve move was for a friend who phoned me at 3.30pm to say that her hosting company were being shut down at 5pm: "can you help?!" As... Read more
August 5, 2009
I've heard from a few people new to WordPress that they're having trouble finding where to activate their WordPress RSS feed. This is a great problem because it has a very simple solution: You don't need to activate your RSS feed in WordPress. Find the feed for your blog posts by adding /feed to your main blog URL - and this will work for your wordpress.com blog too. More about RSS... Read more
July 21, 2009
Following on from a previous post on how to make author profile pages for WordPress, Jabril and a couple of others asked how to make a page listing all the authors of a blog, with bio information and a photo. Here's how to do that. Some things before we start: You'll need to adapt this for your own theme (probably): e.g. you might need to add get_sidebar() in the appropriate place, or... Read more
July 21, 2009
Your blog's not the only place you blog, right? If you need to link your Twitter feed and your Flickr photostream and your Facebook page and your StumbleUpon bookmarks, then you need some cute icons to link from your blog's sidebar. Here are some free ones (check the terms of use because they're not all free for commercial sites and some require backlinks). Square The most popular shape, and... Read more
July 20, 2009
photo credit: 416styleThis is basic, but more than one person has had a little panic at me this week. Symptoms include: No categories show up. Where the posts should be is blank, or It says "Not Found Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here." or similiar where my blog should be. Other things like recent posts and comments are blank. The newness of the blog is the... Read more
June 27, 2009
When I first saw that syntax highlighting would be available with WordPress 2.8, I thought it was a great idea. If you're using the WordPress built-in editor to amend themes or plugins on your live installation, you need to get it right first time, so having the source code display in different colours should help avoid mistakes, right? Except it turns out - frankly - to be a complete pain.... Read more
June 22, 2009
photo credit: Hamed SaberIn the last few days, I've heard from a few people who've upgraded to WordPress 2.8 that they're missing some or all of the visual editor from the Add New Post page: even if the "Visual" tab is selected (not the "HTML" one), buttons are missing. People have also reported the dashboard page not loading properly. The issues seem to be reported more widely in Firefox... Read more
June 8, 2009
The release of WordPress 2.8 is "tentatively" scheduled for 10th June. It looks like the release may even happen on time, so make sure you're ready to upgrade. How to upgrade if you're running WP 2.7 or 2.7.1 If you are a good person 
running the latest version of WordPress, then upgrading will be easy for you. A button will appear on your desktop asking if you wish to upgrade: click... Read more
May 21, 2009
Sooner or later, how much you love the WordPress theme you've chosen, you're going to want to change something about it. Maybe you'll want your post titles to be a little larger, or to change fonts or link colours, or to make your sidebar wider. If you already know HTML, CSS and PHP, then head on over to the Theme Editor and start playing. But for everyone else, this post will be a brief... Read more