Archive for January, 2009
Clean Up WordPress Database
WordPress has gone through many updates over the past year or so and if you have gone through the updates along with using and updating multiple plugins, you may find your WordPress blog or site to be running pretty sluggish. You could even experience database errors after an upgrade, especially with version 2.7. What I am going to attempt to explain in this WordPress guide is not for the total newbie and some technical knowledge will be needed if you want to attempt to do this.
New Look And New Database For WPM
After a few months of procrastination WordPress Max has finally got the theme update. Although I am not all that pleased with the new theme yet I will continue to tweak it. The other major change is a what you can’t see and that is the new database running the WordPress site.
Is WordPress Better Than A Static HTML Site
I get a lot of questions from people who don’t quite understand the basic difference between a typical HTML website and one run with WordPress. Then there are those that are so new to content management that they don’t know what they really want except to have some type of web presence. In an attempt not to beat the dead horse “is WordPress better than a static HTML site” argument, I will attempt to explain the pros and the few cons of using WordPress as a content management system to run your website.
Keep A WordPress Post On The Top Of Others
There may be times when you want one particular WordPress post to appear on the very top even after other posts are made. That option was once done with various plugins but now it is a built-in feature in WordPress version 2.7. This short WordPress guide will show you just how easy it is to do.
Backup WordPress Database
Backing up your WordPress database is something most of us fail to do on a regular basis. I have yet to need a database backup to restore a catastrophic lose but have used them to move a WordPress blog to a new server and I always backup the database before an upgrade. There are two methods to backup your database one is manually in the hosting account control panel the other is with a plugin. I like the manual method and will cover it in this guide.
Checking WordPress Stats In The Dashboard
Statistics for websites can be helpful to give some insight as to what you are doing right, and what your readers like about your site. WordPress is no different and if you have the WordPress Stats plugin installed you can see a quick snapshot of your WordPress blogs stats on your blogs main dashboard.
WordPress Visual Editor Has Disappeared Or Isn’t Working
Has your WordPress visual editor stopped working? There are two quick settings to check if this has happened to your WordPress blog.
WordPress Plugin Updates Not Working
Have you recently upgraded your WordPress blog and found that you can no longer automatically upgrade your plugins? There can be many different reasons for upgrade plugins not to work but here are two plugins to check for if you recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.7.
Another Reason for Using Less WordPress Plugins
When I first started working with WordPress I tried all kinds of different plugins to gain an advantage and make blogging easier. Over time I discovered that some plugins have a short life span and using them can actually make more work for you or end up being a pain to get rid of.
Finally Upgraded To 2.7
Here is just a brief little post to test the functionality of WordPress version 2.7 on the site. Believe it or not WPM was running on very very old version of WordPress. Why? Because I was too lazy to find replacement plugins for some of my favorite plugins that don’t work with version 2.7.
