Posts in wordpress Category

I had this in mind for a loooong time. Using private pages was a hacky way of getting things done with the older WordPress. As Lorelle had suggested, I have put together a very simple plugin – bits – using custom post types feature of the newer WordPress versions. [Continue]

A fresh WordPress 3.2 is available. It has some good new features, but it will cause a deeper impact because henceforth WordPress will not work with PHP 4 and MySQL 4. This has been in works, Mark Jaquith had announced this a year back. [Continue]

I am frequently asked by some WordPress users if they should categorize both in the parent and the child categories. Lot of people do it so that the parent category gets listed in the the_category() call for that post. In my opinion, there is no point in categorizing in the parent category if it is aimed for the child category. [Continue]

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]

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]

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]