WordPress is one of the powerful CMS (Content Management System) for blogger. Which easily to upgrade, maintain, extend and customized. Upgrading WordPress is easy, you just click it from Admin Dashboard > Updates and press the Update Automatically button. But in some case this won’t work.If you have many plugins and customization, WordPress automatically updates won’t work, and to be honest i don’t know why. So what happen if your update process is stop in the middle of the process? … Read more...
Simple Way to Secure Your WordPress
November 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment
It is irrevocably true that security is the main thing you must pay attention to when you are using WordPress. Still, to optimize other features is also important. Well, let’s go further about how to secure and optimize your WordPress.First off, since the files stored in the /wp-admin/ folder is so sensitive since the blog lets the folder open and unfortunately people who access this folder can do something with them, you can secure the directory by placing a .htaccess file in the folder … Read more...
Accidentally Block WordPress Agent Which Make wp-cron.php Stop Working
November 13, 2010 • Leave a Comment
In the last couple days i found that my sitemap.xml is not automatically update when i publish a new post. As far as i know, sitemap.xml will automatically build using wp-cron.php. And after digging a little bit, i found that something block the wp-cron.php to run. This is the error log shows:So the error log says that “client denied by server configuration“. This errors may cause by many possibilities, but in my case i misblock the WordPress agent in my htaccess, see my previous … Read more...
How To Solve WordPress If Asking FTP Account When Installing Plugin
November 11, 2010 • 6 Comments
This may happen in small cases. WordPress asking your FTP password when you want to install plugin from your WordPress admin. I still don’t know what cause it, but in most cases is because server configuration which may different in every share hosting.So just in case you have this issue you can add your FTP account in your wp-config.php.Here how to do it:Download your wp-config.php, open it in your favorite text editor. Insert these lines somewhere in your wp-config.php, but i … Read more...
[HowTo] Publish Post Via XML-RPC In WordPress
September 16, 2010 • 28 Comments
There are many ways to publish Wordpress blog post. You can publish from the Wordpress admin interface, you can publish via email and also you can publish it via XML-RPC. So what is XML-RPC? XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. Which mean we can call the Wordpress procedure remotely. And this will make Wordpress easily integrate with other system.To enable publish via XML-RPC in Wordpress follow these … Read more...
Should You Upgrade Your WordPress Plugin Or Not?
August 26, 2010 • Leave a Comment
WordPress is an opensource CMS (Content Management System) that often use for blogging. And Wordpress are famous with it's extended features with plugins and themes. You can install and configure your plugin with minimal programming skill or even without it. And you can change your themes with in one click. I have been using Wordpress for my blog for two years now. I have developed 1 theme and use some plugins. As the Wordpress development and plugin development are different, sometimes plugins … Read more...
Secure Your WordPress Blog
July 28, 2010 • 13 Comments
Security is like a part of our life. We need to secure ours from the others. In real life, we use keys to secure our house, car and many others from unwanted visitors or unwanted person, that maybe want to do something bad with our stuff. Same as your websites, in this case your blog. You also need to protect your blog from unwanted/bad visitors. You need to protect your information, data and any privacy you store on your website.Follow these tips to secure your WordPress blog: 1. Use SSL … Read more...
WordPress 3.0 RC3 Released!
June 12, 2010 • Leave a Comment
Wordpress 3.0 RC3 finally release for testing purpose. Lot of bug fixes and improvements. All wordpress plugin and themes developer are encouraged to test your plugins and themes. If you found any bugs with this release you can submit your ticket to here.Wordpress 3.0 Release Candidate 3 probably is the last release candidate. Wordpress may release the final version after this release. When? Honestly, i don't know too. I'm looking forward to hear the good news from their.Please remember … Read more...
[HowTo] Use Your Own Domain In WordPress.com
June 7, 2010 • 3 Comments
WordPress is one of the most blogging tools and you can have your own blog just by register to their site. By default, your free WordPress address is yourblog'sname.wordpress.com. And it would be nice if you can have your own domain, but host your blog on Wordpress.com. Or, if you already have another website and want to use WordPress as a blog for it, you could even add blog.yoursite.com or any other subdomain.Adding a domain to your WordPress.com is a paid upgrade; registering and mapping … Read more...
Fix WordPress Error Blank Page
June 4, 2010 • 53 Comments
WordPress 3.0 is coming up soon. This tips apply for all Wordpress version. Wordpress is one of the most used and powerful blog engine. And with the all community support, many plugins are developed to make Wordpress more powerful and nice. But not all plugin developer coded their plugin as Wordpress standards. And sometimes this will make problem, and the most annoying problem is blank page error. No error message, no sign of alive, just white blank screen. The first tips for you all is "don't … Read more...
