I recently read the book “Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read” by Scott McNulty. It was never going to be easy writing a how-to book about a platform which is under constant and regular development so the book has had to focus on a specific version which is 2.6.2 whereas WordPress is currently [read more...]

It is early on 11th June 2009 and WordPress 2.8, the latest release of the content management system (CMS) codename “Baker”, is available for download. Fortunately, the handy 5 minute install and upgrade instructions will get you up and running quickly as usual. The recommendations for the platform are PHP version 4.3 or higher. MySQL [read more...]

Using WordPress content management system I needed to use the full width of the content space for one particular page. Many of the other pages follow the content/sidebar arrangement but on this particular page needed to be quite wide so the sidebar had to go. In the Page editor section – WordPress has the option [read more...]

Employing tools like Akismet, reCAPTCHA and WP-reCAPTCHA plug-in in WordPress are useful for keeping spammers at bay but I have noticed a deluge of spam seemingly making its way past the WP-reCAPTCHA plug-in – Akismet is stopping it get through but I am left wondering why it should get past the reCAPTCHA plug-in. reCAPTCHA is [read more...]