Not every web hosting provider bundles Fantastico or its equivalent into your hosting plan. Even if they do, sometimes it wouldn’t work (been there, done that, not on Fantastico though, but on DreamHost’s one-click-install). In this case, your best bet is to download the entire WordPress script at 1.8 MB with over 600 files in [...]

Launched less than a week ago by Automattic, WordPress.tv is a video website aiming to put all up-to-date WordPress related videos in one place. Among the video contents that can be found are tutorial videos to help new WordPress users and WordCamp footage videos. Besides videos, slides used in WordCamp, presentations made by WordPress gurus [...]

One DoS attack, on one cluster of DreamHost, has affected 447 servers, and results in 8 hours downtime on SheepTech, as well as many other websites in the same cluster.

Martin Wright made a good point in his guest post on TwiTip about using our own blog domain to host short URLs pointing to your blog posts, instead of services like TinyURL, Bit.ly and tr.im. Martin suggested the use of Short URL WordPress Plugin to do the job, but I see a better way to [...]

FeedBurner is able to maintain as the top RSS feed management service for all its useful features. FeedFlare is one of them, which will allow you to add a link to an “Email This” form and links to other social media websites under each of your feed item. The good news is you can actually [...]

If you are using Gravatar to avatar-ize your WordPress blog’s comment section, you might want to consider using Twittar. Twittar is a WordPress plugin that pulls avatar off from a commenter’s Twitter account by matching the email address.