Archive for June, 2009

Sometimes you might notice that you’re browsing the Internet or, say, in the middle of doing a PowerPoint presentation or compiling a spreadsheet, and….. your PC has slowed down so much that you become frustrated. This can happen because memory usage increases and slows down the applications and processes on your PC. When this happens [...]

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Unfortunately the latest WordPress version 2.8 is not for me. I upgraded it on one of my working blogs, and I have to say that it appeared to happen quite fast and smoothly. However, I then found that a large chunk of my Dashboard had disappeared and refused to resurface. Normally this can happen if [...]

I recently had to research how to protect my own weblogs and those of my clients after one got badly hacked.
To protect my weblogs I have ended up installing even more plugins than I had before. I’m not keen on doing this, since invariably there crops up a plugin that one installs that all of [...]

My idea of installing two lots of separate WordPress installations on my server so that Helloo ! and Shoot! had their own separate identities and their own databases did NOTwork as perfectly as I thought it would!
Both weblogs functioned fine. But then I discovered that I could not claim the Shoot ! blog in MyBlogLog [...]

I’ve had to publish this because I’ve needed to do this 2 or 3 times on different client blogs, and each time I forget how and have to spend extra time looking up the instructions again.  Now I’ve published this on my site I hope that it’s useful for others as well.
The Meta or Admin [...]

Having just started two interesting – and hopefully money-making – projects using the WordPress platform, I thought I would relate my thoughts on why I did not choose the WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) option. Last December 2008 one of my client’s WPMU sites got hacked. I had spent considerable time setting it up, including many individual [...]