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 [...]

Some of you might have noticed that there have been some changes in the way readers can interact with g-loaded.eu over the last month. Comments and trackbacks are being disabled 20-30 days after the publication of a post, while a new facility, a discussion board, has been set up in order to compensate for the [...]

I proudly present the latest and greatest version 1.0 of the Creative Commons configurator plugin for WordPress. The code was almost re-written from scratch, but now the plugin is feature-rich, more flexible and is 100% ready for localization! Greek users will find the Greek translation at the plugin home page. This is the first time [...]

I am very happy to announce that the famous and popular GlossyBlue WordPress theme, created by Nick La from N.Design Studio, has integrated the simple-recent-comments plugin for showing the recent comments. I guess that I couldn’t describe the theme better than its own creator’s description:

According to the latest post, at the time of writing, on the WordPress development blog, a cracker gained access to one of the servers that power wordpress.org and modified the WordPress 2.1.1 distribution package. It is said that malicious code that can make the web application vulnerable was planted into the archive.

Abstractia is a new inspired theme for WordPress, designed by Rob. The theme implements a clean layout and a colour combination which makes the reader feel comfortable with the website, before even starting reading the content. Also, the clever arrangement of the various content blocks makes it easy to interact and navigate. Although I am [...]

Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Licenses has been launched. The license code can be generated at the Creative Commons website. The Creative-Commons-Configurator plugin for WordPress has been updated this morning. All content, which is hosted on G-Loaded!, unless otherwise stated, has been re-licensed and is now available under the terms of a Creative Commons [...]

A few days ago I received a trackback from a post at XiAP design, in which my simple-recent-comments wordpress plugin was mentioned. This is how I found out about XiAP design‘s WordPress themes. The themes are original designs and look really nice. You shouldn’t miss taking a look at them or better trying them out [...]

Comment and trackback spam, content theft, splogs, are constant threats to the consistency of the blog content and also a common headache of bloggers. Recently, Lorelle published a list, or better a review, of plugins that prevent spam from reaching the public pages of a WordPress blog. As usual, her article is great, but there [...]

G-Loaded! has always been a supporter of the Atom Syndication Format, more specifically of the Atom 1.0 Specification, because of its flexibility and extended features. Although this specification has been around for quite a while now, it has not been fully adobted by the major web indexing services or by popular web applications yet.