Posts tagged wordpress
Upgrading Wordpress with the iPhone
Dec 11th
I’ve been using InstantUpgrade for over a year now to keep my blog on the latest version of Wordpress without fail. Every upgrade has been smooth and successful and has gone off without a hitch. This evening I got really brave and used my iPhone to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7, again everything went More >
PHP (Wordpress) development using Eclipse and XAMPP
Jan 6th
As can be determined from my other posts, I’m a Java Developer by trade and Eclipse is my editor of choice. Now I have gone to the darkside now and then for some good out of the box software, such as Wordpress, which as you may know is written in PHP. The main More >
InstantUpgrade – My new favorite WordPress plugin
Jun 26th
Suffering from an internal struggle, I love to be on the latest and greatest WordPress, but I’m also extremely lazy and don’t enjoy the pain of upgrading. The WordPress upgrade process is annoying at best. If you follow all the rules and, back up your database, backup your old files, disable all your More >
Lighttpd 1.5 rewrite rules for WordPress
May 27th
GreatWebGuy.com is now running on Lighttpd or “Lighty” 1.5 and WordPress 2.2. The biggest hurdle we had to overcome running our blog with the Lighty http server was the rewrite rules for our custom Permalink structure – /%category%/%postname%/ – none of the rewrite rules posted on the web seemed to work correctly. If More >
aStore – The Simple E-Commerce Store
Mar 28th
Amazon has a tool for Amazon Associates that allows you to build and customize your own Store with any selection of products from Amazon.com. We currently use Amazon for their context relative Omakase Ads contextual text links, we were curious about the aStore so we built one. You can create up to 100 More >
21 WordPress plug-ins, some good, some bad, some just ugly
Mar 25th
You may have noticed that I’m short on entries this past week. New to blogging and easily distracted by shiny things, wordpress plug-ins are my Kryptonite. If you’re not hosting your own blog and not playing with plug-ins all the time I imagine you’re probably a much more productive blogger than me. More >
Hosted Wordpress Blog – How to do it quickly
Feb 22nd
There are several sites such as wordpress.com and blogger.com where you can sign up for free and start your blog right away.
But if you’re like me, that’s not good enough, you want to express your individuality, make your own name, control your own destiny. You want your own domain and your own host so More >