Many people consider Open Source can’t be suitable for corporate usage, especially when it comes to blogging. Some blogging platform even put out slogans like “Corporate/professional blog publishing platform”, well if you poke around a bit, soon you will find out that is nothing but just a sales speech. Reason for this post is in fact talking about a particular blog publishing platform, WordPress. In the past I came across quite a large number of people who blindly believe (never did try by themselves)- WordPress might be good, but not good enough to showcase their corporate/professional/enterprise blogging. …

In case you are wondering what is pagination? It’s mechanism to break large quantity of data/text into pages for better usability and accessibility. For instance think you are searching for “Free blog tools” on Google, which will return around 35,500,000 results and if Goggle show you all the results in one single page-just guess how you will react? But they don’t, instead they break the results into several pages and you notice a numbered navigation link (ref: Fig. 1a) bellow each page for better navigation. Not only Google or other search engines but as well many top class web sites …

These are very easy to do stuffs, nothing complex yet in time you will find it useful. Most no-tech blogger intend to do everything through plug-ins, but why install dozens of plug-in while you can get away with just adding few tweaks? So here are five simple tweaks that will make your WP life a lot comfortable.

Denying access to non-referrer request/Spam-bot request via .htaccess

This is simple and straight forward way to deal your referrer spam. Well off course considering your server is …

You better be ready! Since “Dexter”, as in WordPress 2.3 is already launched just a few hours ago (At the time of this posting). I was expecting the release sometime this morning, didn’t expected it almost half day earlier :). So why is this WP 2.3 so special? Cause WordPress 2.3 comes with tons of features that we the users were craving for a long time. Apart from feature richness “Dexter” also took care of over 351 bugs/trouble tickets that were due in Trac. The kick ass features that will rock your blogging- …

Most of the time we all talk about increasing readership, this time why not we will go for performance enhancement. Few days ago one of my subscriber expressed that, he experienced sluggishness on the back end while using WordPress as a CMS with high number of pages. He isn’t the only person who came across this problem, a lot of WP users experience related problem generally. Question is whether these problems resides in the core of WP or occasionally forced by some other issues? Actually there is no simple answer for that, any CMS whether Drupal or Wordpress can experience same issues caused by numerous reasons without anything to do with the core itself. I will keep the focus of the discussion on the WordPress (self hosted) related issues to narrow it down. Why not we turn the spotlight on the fundamental reasons first, so that it would be easier to eliminate them? Your WP (WordPress) powered site may experience sluggishness for- MySQL server or connection issues. PHP Memory Limit. Apache log rotator problem (for Apache server). Broken/Degraded PHP code in template/theme files. Excessive plugin uses/ use of plugin(s) with broken codes. Some particular third party widgets/ JavaScript codes. WordPress Dashboard’s display of RSS feeds Pingback attempts when posting There are many other reasons which might trigger sluggishness, but one way or another related to above mentioned causes. Now that we know what makes our WP site’s slow down (Back end or front end), let’s turn our focus on how to avoid these.

Over the course of time WordPress has changed a lot so are the plugins associated with it. If you compare WordPress’s earlier versions and the latest one, you will notice it’s completely different. Lots of plugins that used to work with WordPress 1.1 are no longer worked with WordPress 2+. Some of those are even no longer needed, as WordPress already have those within. Not every plugins you find in WordPress is worth adding; some of them are even irritating and might cause you a lot of trouble. In my opinion these five plugins are must have kind, because …

This post is a quick post for those readers who do not know/visit my other blog. WordPress announced it’s enterprise version few hours ago with the association with enterprise RSS vendor KnowNow. This new version of WordPress will be known as KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition (KWEE). KWEE will have all the functionality of WordPress MU (multi user) in addition with some enterprise class exclusive tools. You can find the full details on this WordPress bulldoze SixApart with KWEE, which I posted in my 451 press blog. [tags]WordPress MU, WordPress Enterprise, KWEE, KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition [/tags]

Through last three sessions of my WordPress tutorial I already describe the simplicity of installations, features as well as admin interface details part by part. Now that you are well familiar with WordPress, let’s discuss WordPress design, theme and layouts. Since choosing a theme for your blog does include a great deal of factors. Not all designs, or layout is suitable for every blog and not all themes are equip to provide everything. some people has a wrong impression that these themes are just skins like we used in Winamp, WordPress themes are …

Ok in last two parts of tutorial I already explain how fascinating and limitless WordPress features can be and the simplest installation process among all CMS. As I promised this session I will concentrate on WordPress Admin interface. WordPress admin interface is neat and clean yet resource oriented. As WordPress support multi author blogging according to user level Admin interface will change. If you intend to use your blog as a one man show, just like this one, then you really don’t have to worry about these user level stuffs. But let’s say for …

In previous session of WordPress tutorial I discussed the very basic, as if get to know WordPress stuffs. In this session I will focus on the installations, and features/capabilities of WordPress. Since current public release version of WordPress is 2.0.4, so you can assume that when I refer the WordPress it will be that version.

Installation
WordPress installation is very easy; literally don’t take even 3 minutes. Every WordPress installation package contains installation instruction step by step. So if your hosting server & database meet the requirements you should not have problem. Still if you …