WordPress version 2.2 or newer allows the user to define the MySQL database character set and the collation (get familiar with these terms) inside wp-config.php. Today, after upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, I decided to also update this file and append the statement that sets the database encoding to ‘utf8‘. But, as soon [...]

Moving the comments your readers have submitted under one of your blog posts to another one might sound like a horrible idea at first, but there are times, especially when the number of comments has increased too much, that such an action is required in order to reduce the page loading time. I am aware [...]

Today, I noticed that it is no longer required to escape the backslash (\), known as the “escape character” on *nix systems, inside the pre HTML tag in order not to be removed by WordPress’ HTML filters. This bug has lived long enough to be considered as a WordPress feature, but the devs have suddenly [...]

I finally made the decision to upgrade WordPress to the latest 2.3.1 version. I skipped the initial v2.3 release as I had read that there was a lengthy list of bugs about that release, which eventually have been fixed in 2.3.1. Everything seems to run smoothly. I intend to spend some time browsing around my [...]

After some months of inactivity, a new version of the Add-Meta-Tags plugin for WordPress has been released today. Version 1.5 contains the following additions/changes: The license under which the plugin is released has changed. The Add-Meta-Tags plugin is now released under the terms of an Apache License version 2. This change is directly related to [...]

It has been brought to my attention that the current version of the Add-Meta-Tags plugin does not work with WordPress 2.3. All WordPress publishers who use Add-Meta-Tags and have upgraded WP to v2.3, please read this forum post for a temporary fix until I find the time to update the plugin’s code. All credit goes [...]

Recently, I had written a post about WordPress 2.2.1 always delivering full content with the author feeds, ignoring the publisher’s settings. I deliberately had not disclosed much information about the issue, not because it was security related, but due to the fact that it could make the content leechers’ job easier and cleaner. Now, that [...]

I attempted to update the current XHTML 1.0 Transisional WordPress theme in order to comply with the XHTML 1.1 Specification. I must admit that the switch was not that difficult and it required no more than 30 minutes to complete. All the errors and inconsistencies the W3C validator threw at me have been corrected and [...]

Kudos to the person who thought about this! This article describes how you can prevent comment spam with CSS. I am not sure how well this performs, but it sure looks like a decent solution. I would like to test if it would perform better than my trick of dynamically changing the form field names [...]

I hadn’t updated WordPress since the time they had issues with some intruders on the WP servers, but I guess it was about time to get over it and catch up with the new versions. But, just minutes after upgrading to WordPress 2.2.1, I tried out a few things and it seems that I have [...]