Category: WordPress

OMG WordPress BBQ at South by Southwest

This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (also known as SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together. If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you [...]

Saturday March 13th, 2010 in WordPress | No Comments »

New WordPress Foundation site

The new WordPress Foundation site has just been released today. You can check the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. They received their first donation from WordCamp NYC. The money will be used to help developing WordPress. It will be great to see this site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010. Matt Mullenweg, the [...]

Friday January 22nd, 2010 in Updates, WordPress | No Comments »

Blog deep linked content

Pagination is another known indexing problem that most Blogs, Forums and article sites will face. If you have many articles on your blog ( you should actually have as many articles as you can) and a lot of content, you can face some duplication issues when those articles get indexed. When you create a new article, [...]

Tuesday January 5th, 2010 in Blogs, Search Engines, WordPress | No Comments »

Tandil Theme 1.3.4 Released

Hello everyone! I’m releasing a new version of Tandil Theme today. I’ve had some requests from users to add some lines of the articles, to the category and tag pages. So I added the excerpts feature to the category and tags pages. In the last few versions I minified CSS code, which means that the style.css [...]

Wednesday December 30th, 2009 in Tandil Theme, Updates, WordPress | 3 Comments »

WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1 released

The recent release of wordpress 2.9 triggered a bug in certain versions of the PHP’s curl extension. With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly. To fix this specific bug as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing version 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of [...]

Thursday December 24th, 2009 in Beta, Security, Updates, WordPress | No Comments »

WordPress default theme 2010

When WordPress theme Kubrick was bundled with core back in 2005, it was a cutting edge theme. Custom header, rounded corners, clean design, good coding, fast loading… if you were using WordPress back then, you were impressed with this theme. Time moves on, fashions change, new styles become old standards, and what was once cutting edge [...]

Monday December 21st, 2009 in WordPress | No Comments »

WordPress Canonical Plugins

WordPress is going to introduce Canonical Plugins very soon. Canonical plugins are plugins that are community developed, which mean multiple developers, not just one person. These plugins will have GPL license and will be available on WordPress.org. They are planning to keep a very strong relationship between core and these plugins. There will be a screen within the Plugins section of [...]

Wednesday December 9th, 2009 in Plugins, WordPress | No Comments »

Backup Your Blog Database Regularly

It is strongly recommended that you backup your WordPress database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Creating backups of your blog is very easy. You can do it directly from your WordPress Dashboard. You know you should do it regularly, but usually other activities get in the middle and you just forget about it. The [...]

Tuesday November 24th, 2009 in Blogs, Security, WordPress | No Comments »

How do Search Engines find you?

The most common way that search engine robots find and spider a Blog is by following hyperlinks from other sites. In search engine terminology, these sites are known as “found pages”. Some search engines also have a “submit URL” form, where you can suggest that they add your Blog to their index. Typically, you just give the [...]

Thursday November 19th, 2009 in Blogs, Search Engines, Seo, Tandil Theme, WordPress | 1 Comment »

User Feedback is very important

The concept of “User Feedback” is very important for a Blog. Most Search Engines have some notion of “user experience” in their rankings. This can be as simple as measuring whether a surfer who clicks a link on search results returns to look at another result. Also all search engines have ways of measuring or estimating the overall user satisfaction with [...]

Wednesday October 7th, 2009 in Search Engines, Tandil Theme, WordPress | 7 Comments »