Posts in wordpress Category

Nov 14, 2009

WordPress Wins Overall Best Open Source CMS Award

Packt Publishing has selected WordPress as the overall best open source CMS for 2009. The thing to note here is that it is in the category of overall CMS, not just blogging. Hopefully this will make it easier to convince those executives to consider WordPress for web sites. [Continue]

Sep 6, 2009

WordPress Is Still Secure, But Using The Latest Version Is Important

Someone has found a way to exploit a bug in older WordPress versions. The attack can be quite severe, and do permanent damages to your site. Lorelle has details of the attack and its symptoms. [Continue]

Feb 17, 2009

The First WordCamp India

WordCamp is coming to India. I am sure this is stale news for most of you, but if you like WordPress and you haven’t thought about it, do your best to be there. It is being organized by Delhi Bloggers Bloc along with Blog Design Studio. [Continue]

Dec 25, 2008

Using WordPress Pages Differently

While building a web site, it is sometimes important to manage content pieces separately and independent of each other. Imagine a corporate site with a homepage that has briefs on its various offerings, and a brief about itself. Each of these briefs are managed independently, and the homepage is composed by integrating them together. [Continue]

Apr 24, 2008

It Is Not That Easy To Clone WordPress

I have read quite some tutorials which show how WordPress can be built using certain frameworks in a couple of days or in a matter of seconds. They are quite good, and I personally believe that it helps to write a blogging engine if you want to learn Web programming. Unfortunately these tutorials also lead some to believe that this is all there is to WordPress and ignore its capabilities which are the differentiators, and in my opinion, makes it suitable for much more than just blogs. [Continue]

Dec 8, 2007

DiSo, A OpenID And OAuth Prototype

For people like me, who were looking out for something to do with OpenID and OAuth, there is something cooking up already – DiSo. In fact it is more than that, there is use of XFN and one of my other favorite tools, WordPress. Enough about the tools, yes, they do get me excited. [Continue]

Nov 8, 2007

Using WP Super Cache

This blog is now using WP Super Cache, an improved version from Donncha. This blog using the older version, but did face some problems, especially because addition of comments did not refresh the cache. This version should solve the problem. [Continue]

Nov 5, 2007

Microformatting This Blog

I have been long reading about microformats and even using them in some projects. But somehow integrating them with this blog has taken this long. This blog is microformatted now, specifically hCard and hAtom. [Continue]

Oct 20, 2007

Mapping Functions to WordPress Versions

I came across the WordPress Functions Implementation History tool through Mark Ghosh. As Ozh explains, you can use it to find life of a function in the WordPress API. One of the disadvantages of a continuous evolving API is that functions get deprecated, they get modified, and they get dropped; and tracking this across the versions can be tedious. [Continue]

Oct 9, 2007

OpenID Site Redesigned, Using WordPress

Simon Willison likes the OpenID.net site. Another trivia, it has been redone using WordPress 2.3. Yes, WordPress is suitable for many non-blog web sites. [Continue]