WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Pingbacks and Trackbacks is one of the perhaps least understood concepts by new bloggers and one that generates the most questions. Why is it? I think it is mainly because everyone heard about the power it gives to the bloggers but not everyone understood how to use it correctly.

Add the abundance of the trackback SPAM to the mix and it creates a brew many choke on. In this post I’m not planning replicate the efforts of other people but instead share links to The Best Of The Best resources that should teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about using Trackbacks and Pingbacks and Protecting your own blog from the Trackback SPAM…

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Since I have made a small contribution to Brians Threaded Comments (v. 1.5.18) plugin, mainly in a form of suggestion I feel responcible for sharing how to Force Brians Threaded Comments work nicely with WordPress 2.5 plus and SezWho 2.1 plugin.

I know it might seem like a lot of acronyms but they will all make sense once I have describe the problem and then will provide a simple solution…

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A feedback from one of my customers have prompted this article in WordPress Guide Series - Installing Plugins and Themes. The more we work with technology and get accastomed to the way thing work we stop realizing that many people come to WordPress without the knowledge we take for granted!

Installing Plugins and New Themes on your WordPress blog is one of the tasks that is considered the very basic and yet - concept is absolutely alien to many. This post will close the gap and cover in details everything you need to know about the process and ensure that you will not be left behind… so dig in!

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This post has been written by Monika Mundell

Like a kitchen pantry, a blog pantry contains all the goodies, the seasoning and the secret ingredients for our blogs. One is forgiven to think that some bloggers seem to have all the secret ingredients while others struggle to even be noticed.

Much of this has actually nothing to do with the blog pantry itself, but more so with the blogger. Attributes such as endurance, determination, social abilities, hard work and longevity can often be contributing factors of making a particular blog successful.

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WordPress 2.5 have been officially released a few days ago and this is the first time I provide my personal take on it and sharing things You Must Know before doing the upgrade!

I have to admit - the core blog functionality is great. It takes some time to get used to new interface and has One Big Issue with Media Upload (which I’ll explain how to fix in this article) but overall I can actually see that it is faster, better and performs like a champ! And if you don’t use ANY plugin or have verified that ALL plugins you use are compatible - go ahead and upgrade. Otherwise read this article…

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50 Minutes ago developers have released a WordPress RC2 but be aware - it has a problem!

Obviously I have downloaded and installed it to see if some of the previously noticed problems have been addressed only to learn that after upgrade my blog is dead! Luckily I was presented with an error which pointed directly to wp-includes/taxonomy.php file line 165.

In order to get my blog working I had to get that file from RC1 even though this file have been upgraded for RC2. I guess we can only hope that developers will address the issue and update the package. And make sure to watch the screencast by Matt on new Gallery feature that comes with 2.5!

Load time of the WordPress blog is one thing that many bloggers strive to achieve in order to sustain the mass number of visits. And while we do have some control over some of the factors that can greatly help you speed up your blog - you will need to make decisions you might not like …

In this post I’m not going to cover detailed info on caching etc. There are plenty of other posts that explain how to create a minimalistic WordPress blog that loads super fast. I’m here to share how to run a Web 2.0 enabled WordPress blog and still have it load reasonably fast!

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As of few hours ago WordPress Development team has announced the release of WordPress 2.5 RC1. Meaning that even they don’t consider this release 100% ready for production and want to test the waters with as wide audience as possible.

You should take same precautions because in my test - WordPress 2.5 RC1 is not ready to take the space on my production blogs. I have discovered that couple of the plugins that my blog heavily relies on are not compatible with new version.

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In this part of my WordPress Guide I want to build on interest generated by previous posts and provide a solution to what many of my readers consider to be one of the biggest hustles in WordPress - Image Management.

While it might not be as complete answer as I would like it to be but short of doing a core re-write this is best I could possibly find. In this post I will talk about how to enhance your WordPress Image Management system to make it more user friendly and hopefully make you more productive…

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