Every WordPress user, or rather web manager, knows that plugins are great tools to extend the functionality of WordPress and customise sites to meet specific needs. For example, we use plugins to also change, or at least allow us to change, the appearance of some of our sites. Unfortunately though, these same tools also cause problems when upgrading to the latest Wordpress version. Recently, we found out that our problem of not being … [Read more...]
Database character sets and WordPress
January 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set "utf8" and the latter using "latin1." When our technical people tried using WordPress' default character set in the database script, other more serious problems came out. It appears that … [Read more...]
How to blog at WordPress.com
November 11, 2009 By 4 Comments
Last September, I signed up for a free account at WordPress.com so I would know how it is to operate in a WP-hosted blogging environment. After seven weeks, I have written more than 20 articles mainly tutorials on how to blog at WordPress.com. Above is a screenshot of one of my more popular articles at WordPress.com. I am very pleased to note that my WP site, Working and WordPress-ing, has helped other WP bloggers with useful tips and … [Read more...]
Tweeting from your WP blog
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account. Each WP post that you write can easily be connected to your Twitter account. But how do you customize your tweets? That is where the problem lies. Well, at least from … [Read more...]
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