Backing up your WordPress database is something most of us fail to do on a regular basis. I have yet to need a database backup to restore a catastrophic loss but have used them to move a WordPress blog to a new server and I always backup the database before an upgrade. There are two…
Statistics for websites can be helpful to give some insight as to what you are doing right, and what your readers like about your site. WordPress is no different and if you have the WordPress Stats plugin installed you can see a quick snapshot of your WordPress blogs stats on your blogs main dashboard. The…
Has your WordPress visual editor stopped working? There are two quick settings to check if this has happened to your WordPress blog. The first setting to check is to make sure you haven’t checked the option to Disable the visual editor when writing in your profile. In the WordPress dashboard go to Users, Your Profile…
Have you recently upgraded your WordPress blog and found that you can no longer automatically update your plugins? There can be many different reasons for the upgrade or update plugins not to work but here are two plugins to check for if you recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.7. With the release of WordPress version…
Here is just a brief little post to test the functionality of WordPress version 2.7 on the site. Believe it or not, WPArena was running on a very very old version of WordPress. Why? Because I was too lazy to find replacement plugins for some of my favorite plugins that don’t work with version 2.7….
WordPress 2.7 has some major changes in the WordPress dashboard most notable is the placement of the menus on the left side instead of the top navigation menu of the past. Navigating the dashboard is a little different, but if you have spent any amount of time with previous versions then it shouldn’t take long…
