As May 28 2010, Wordpress release Wordpress 3.0 release candidate 1 (RC1). This release have all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But please keep in mind, this only the release candidate, don't install or upgrade your live site with this version, unless you know what you are doing.Things you need to know with this release candidate: 1. Custom menus are finished! 2. Multi-site is all set. 3. The look of the WordPress admin has been lightened … Read more...

WordPress 3.0 New Features And Release Date
Wordpress 3.0 Beta 2 has been released on April 24, 2010 as the wordpress official statements on their blog here. The final release will be somewhere in this May 2010. There is no exact release date announce yet. As this next major version release, Wordpress 3.0 add some new features that will make Wordpress more powerful and become the best CMS (Content Management System) for blog.As they say there are still some bugs on their plate to fix, so in my opinion this Wodpress 3,0 release date … Read more...
New Themes Again, Codename: Codemaniac v1.0
Hey there! Probably you already noticed with my new themes. Yes, i recently changed it (again!). But, this time is very different from the previous themes. Because all my previous themes was modified from free themes that i got from the internet out there. But this one, i designed it from the scratch. Yes i did the design from zero. Start from design the web page on photoshop, then export it into HTML and CSS, then export it into wordpress themes structure and code, add some default function … Read more...

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
Today i upgraded my blog to use Wordpress v2.8.5. I feel nothing different since this release is patch for security release as they publish it on Wordpress official blog, you can read it here. I am happy to use Wordpress as my blog engine. It is so easy to use and have many useful plugins. And the most important thing it is stable. And i am looking forward for the next release of the Wordpress v.2.9 there are lots of new feature that you can see it here.The headline changes in this release … Read more...

Hiding WordPress Stats Smiley Image In your Templates
If you are a Wordpress user and using WP Stats service to see your blog statistics, you will notice that a little smiley image will add to your footer template. I'm using Wordpress for 1 year now and i found that sometimes annoying, but that smiley is not something you can remove since WP Stats using that image as a tracking.Since you cannot remove it (as long as you want to use WP Stats service), you can hide it with a simple trick using a css. Just paste this code into your stylesheet.css … Read more...

WordPress 2.8.1 Release
Today my wordpress upgraded to new version, version 2.8.1. There wasn't so many change though. But it feels better to upgrade to the newest version.Here is the change log for Wordpress v.2.8.1:Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change. Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page. The … Read more...

Upgrading to WordPress 2.8
Today i upgraded my wordpress core to v2.8. More cool stuff and new feature. The admin user interface looks nicer especially for widget page, now you can drag and drop your widget and save with ajax. Also the new text editor for plugin and themes with syntax highlighting.Complete List of New Feature in Wordpress v2.8 (reference from Wordpress Official site):HighlightsNew drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built … Read more...

Solve WordPress Blank Page
Today my blog was down for couple hours. My front page was blank. No errors, no response, no logs and it was really make me frustrated. After digging a while i found that my admin backend was working and no errors. And i tried to type any link so it will produce 404 response, and yippiee... my blog show up. But the front page still blank!Then i remember last night i edited some configuration in .htaccess file. I tried to restore it and the front page still blank. Argghhh..... Then i tried … Read more...