The WordPress Evangelist

The 13th major update of WordPress is finally here! A little late coming, but more than welcome to all WordPress lovers. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s the merger of the two branches of WordPress and now it’s multi-site enabled. I’m working on a Web project that’s built on WordPress 3.0 and that will take advantage [...]

A few days ago I changed the permalink structure on my Davao Delicious blog from /%category%/%postname%/ to /%year%/%category%/%postname%/. As of this writing, that blog has a PageRank of 4 and a lot of the posts and pages are indexed by Google. Some might say my move was risky because it would cause my blog to [...]

My blogs were hacked into using illegal SQL injection. So, to protect my WordPress installations from this attack, I changed the database tables’ prefix from wp_ to something else entirely.

And then, there it was! WordPress 2.9 is now officially released and available for upgrade (and first-time installation). I’m posting this on v2.9, and I must say, it feels like the purr of a well-oiled machine. The “Move to Trash” link and the fact that WordPress now has a global trash bin make for more [...]

WordPress 2.9 is now on RC-1 status, and it’s been announced that the brand-new version will most likely be released to the world by the end of the week. As expected, we’ll see major enhancements to the way WordPress handles media files. Beta-testing v2.9 RC-1, I’ve seen those cool new features, such as on-the-fly image [...]