WordPress Creator Matt's WordPress Blog DownApril 26th, 2009 A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress.
How To Get Older Versions of WordPressJanuary 18th, 2007 WordPress is a popular blogging software which is used in this blog and lot of blogs on the internet. One of the frequently asked questions was how can we get older versions of WordPress.
WordPress (Blogging Software) Version 2.1 ReleasedJanuary 24th, 2007 WordPress, a popular blogging software, has released version 2.1 with many exciting features and over 550 bug fixes. The key features are:
Autosaving of posts - It has incorporated the features of tw_autosave plugin in the core.
WordPress Beats Blogger in Google Search & NewsMay 19th, 2007 The latest Google search Trends (picture below) shows WordPress ahead of Blogger. Typepad and Movable Type are far behind and in decline.
Is there a need to upgrade beyond WordPress 1.5.1.2 in near future?June 20th, 2005 I looked at the proposed feature set summary for WordPress 1.6. Mostly UI changes, few extra plugin hooks etc.
Is IP Address Validation of Trackbacks Fraught With Dangers (Large False Positives)?February 5th, 2008 There is a trackback validator plugin which checks if the IP address of the trackbacking server is the same as the URL it is trackbacking for. Is this a valid check or will this result in losing many genuine trackbacks?
This policy in general will work only when you are directly using the authoring interface of the blogging software like WordPress.
10 Simple Tips for Better BloggingDecember 2nd, 2005 Krutik asked me about tips on blogging. So I thought of compiling a small simple list for people new to blogging.
What would be the Features of an Ideal Blog SoftwareJuly 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software?
Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind:
Commenting with:
WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion)
Strong Spam Protection through:
Blacklist
Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?)
Keyword (regex) moderation
IP Banning
Referrer Bouncer
Rule based spam checking
Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols
Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols
Multi-blog-multi-author
SERP optimized
Update:
Blogging with:
WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).
WordPress Visual / WYSIWYG Editor is Now PassableJuly 10th, 2008 The WordPress Visual Editor is finally passable and I have switched to it from plain HTML editor. It saves you time from formatting text while blogging.
Is Flock (Browser) Ready for Prime Time Yet?April 29th, 2006 Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer. It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor.
New Blogging Rage - Meta BloggingDecember 19th, 2005 Meta Blogging is the rage these days. There are literally hundreds of blogs which talks about - blogging.
How to Backup & Restore MySQL DatabaseMay 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.
10 Reasons to dump Blogger and date Wordpress right NOW!September 12th, 2009 Which is your favorite blogging platform - WordPress or Blogger? A majority of bloggers answer that they started with Google's Blogger but have shifted to WordPress now. Well, that doesn't prove WordPress is a better blogging platform than Blogger.
Serious Security Vulnerabilities of WordPress 1.5.1.2 and belowJuly 5th, 2005 WordPress is a very popular personal publishing platform aka blogging platform (with a primitive CMS) in use all over the web. There are a number of serious security vulnerabilities in WordPress that may allow an attacker to ultimately run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.
Simplest Way To Backup WordPress From BrowserJune 8th, 2008 Traditionally WordPress is backed up by backing the database and the files separately, if required. WordPress 2.5.1 introduces a much simpler way to backup the database in xml format on your desktop.