Recent Posts Tagged With 'wordpress'

• Geocities Is Closing Soon – Other Free Blogs and Websites

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 08:57 in web design, wordpress, blogger, blogspot, free blog, geocities, free websites, weebly

  OK, Geocities is now in its last couple of weeks. Soon it will be no more. Why Yahoo! is closing it is a mystery really, as other companies seem to manage to make a fair bit of business from the free sites. Here is a roundup of places you can go to g...

• There is a new version of All in One SEO Pack available

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 12:06 in SEO, wordpress, plugin, web administration, all in one se pack

  Do any other Wordpress users think that the All in One SEO Pack is updated too often? It is an excellent plugin that enhances the CMS really well, but I seem to be forever installing a new version. Why? Maybe I should ask the chaps over at Semper Fi ...

• Wordpress 2.8.4 Automatic Update Warning: “Anyone can register”

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 10:40 in wordpress, membership, web administration, 2.8.4, anyone can register

  Just spotted on a couple of blogs that I did an automatic update on that the Membership was set to “Anyone can register”. Luckily the default lever was subscriber.  There appears to be a cheeky bot out that signing up in the hope of find...

• How to Add Widget Areas to Your Wordpress Theme

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 17:50 in web design, wordpress, widgets, how to add widgets to wordpress, post widget

  Just found this fantastic tutorial on adding widget areas to any Wordpress theme. I successfully set up a new widget area below the content of my posts on another blog I write for in about 5 minutes. Step 1. In the index.php file in your theme direct...

• Wordpress 2.8.1 Upgrade is Ready

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 18:15 in wordpress, open source, cms, wordpress.org, 2.8.1, web administration, 2.8

  Time to upgrade your Wordpress installations. Need help? Let me know. Just FTP a backup to your pc, and backup the MySQL database, then hit the upgrade automatically button in the Wordpress Dashboard and you’re away. Be patient while it ticks a...

• Wordpress Introduces BuddyPress Social Networking CMS

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 14:44 in blogging, wordpress, social networking, open source, cms, wpmu, buddypress

  Wordpress, the most popular open source blogging platform, has just introduced its new piece of software, BuddyPress. Wordpress describes BuddyPress as a sister to Wordpress, although it actually requires the WPMU (Wordpress Multi-user) version of Wo...

• Roundhill Labs Release wpToGo Upgrade

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 07:06 in google, wordpress, internet news, mobile internet, android, android market, wptogo, dan roundhill

  The second upgrade in a week is now available, wpToGo, the leading Wordpress aplication for Android mobile devices, now supports tags. Other bug fixes include force closures and blank titles. Well done Dan, project manager at Roundhill Labs. WpToGo i...

• wpToGo Upgrade Available For Android

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 02:32 in wordpress, internet news, mobile internet, google phone, android, wptogp

  Good news for Wordpress bloggers with an Android mobile device, a new version of wpToGo has been released. The latest version allows for multiple accounts as well as photo uploading. Great work from the author who had announced that he did not have t...

• Most Important Wordpress Plugins Reviewed

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 14:57 in Software, wordpress, plugins, extend, add-ons for wordpress, wordpress modules

  Wordpress is possibly the best blogging tools for people who have their own domain, and PHP/MySQL capabilities on their server. Out of the box it is a solid performer, with a lot of useful features. However, what makes Wordpress really good is the fa...

• PostBot for Android Does Not Work - No Page Header or Category

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 02:31 in wordpress, android, postbot

  titleTesting Postbot for Googlels Android phone/title category300/category Due to the limitations of wpToGo I am now testing Postbot. I actually contacted the author of wpToGo with suggestions for improvments, and he apologised for not having the tim...

• WordPress 2.7.1 is available! Please update now.

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 16:31 in wordpress, internet news, automatic upgrade, 2.7, 2.7.1

  Exciting. Well, sort of, in a geeky kind of way. The last Wordpress upgrade introduced automatic upgrades, so this new release, 2.7.1, is the first time that we can test it. I have tried it on one blog, and glad to say that it worked a treat. No more...

• WpToGo allows quicker Wordpress blogging from Android G1 phone

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 10:43 in wordpress, android, wptogo

  I have just installed wpToGo on my G1 Google Android phone. This application is designed to allow easier blogging using mobile devices (i.e. G1) by accessing a Wordpress blog directly without the need to open the Wordpress control panel in then brows...