Practical Blogging Tips You Can Use Today
A problem that many bloggers face is managing the categories for their blog. It can be difficult to define a list of categories when a blog is started. Even when you do, often times a blog will evolve over time and cover more and more different categories. Eventually you can end up with the problem [...]
Displaying relevant posts to your blog readers may entice them to click and read another blog post while they are visiting your site. WordPress uses Categories and Tags to allow you to group relevant content together. There are two popular plugins that make use of these to display a series of links to other related [...]
These 10 WordPress websites are unique in many ways and yet they all share one thing in common. Check out the gallery and see if you can guess what it is.
The Popularity Contest plugin is a great way to show a list of popular posts for your blog, however many people run into the same “Fatal Error” when trying to install and activate the plugin on their own WordPress blogs. There are two common issues that are the cause of this. Open the popularity-contest.php file [...]
I missed the release day for this one which is embarrassing because I was actually watching out for it for a long time. The second edition of WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson has been released. WordPress for Dummies is one of the best books on WordPress for new bloggers and this new second edition [...]
The team at WordPress have launched WordPress.tv, the visual resource for all things WordPress. The site contains video tutorials on how to use WordPress.org, WordPress.org, and also contains footage from recent Wordcamps. The videos are very well produced and cover topics mostly for beginners at this stage. They might be getting hammered with launch traffic [...]
I’ve recently install Joost de Valk’s RSS Footer plugin on my WordPress blog. The plugin allows you to place content (such as text or HTML code) at the beginning or the end of each post in your RSS feed, as well as add a link to the original post. Here are three simple ways this [...]
If you upgraded your WordPress blog to version 2.7 you may have discovered that the Flash uploader for images is no longer available for you. The problem may be a missing swfupload.swf file in the /wp-includes/js/swfupload folder of your WordPress installation. The solution is to upload the missing file to your web host using an [...]
In my last post I showed you how to use the WP-DB-Backup plugin to scheduled automatic backups of your WordPress database and have them sent to you via email. My emails are hosted with Google Apps and that is where my database backups are sent. I don’t want my inbox getting cluttered with these emails [...]
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Remove corrupt WordPress comments with phpMyAdmin
Getting comments from visitors to your blog is a great feeling but aside from the problem of comment spam you may also find on rare occassions that a comment gets corrupted or mangled when it is posted. In this situation you may also find that you can’t moderate the comment via the WordPress admin dashboard [...]