I try not to write such posts, but the frustrations expressed by my clients who hosts on Yahoo! Small Business compels me to point out the obvious shortcomings of a popular host. This non-exhaustive list is in no particular order, it’s just the top 4 reasons why I would not recommend or host any on [...]

Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress inatall, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running on [...]

I gave up on Notepad a while ago and switched to Notepad++, which among other things allows one to format a file in UTF-8 without BOM, in turn cleaning up your XHTML files for validation (no “Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File” warnings).

Lately, there is a growing trend in the WordPress theme design community to produce high-end, premium, magazine (or webzine) style work. This was to happen sooner or later, it was only a matter of time before users discovered the full potential of WordPress to power sites outside of their blogs and when that happened, the [...]

Have you found yourself wanting to display a piece of code in your blog post or a comment form that left you stripping off elements or re-pasting it over and over only to find that the code is actually being executed? I run in this issue a lot while replying to support questions, so I [...]

This “how to” was written in January 2007, but the techniques applies to modern day WordPress upgrades as well. Users who have better things to do with their time than to upgrade their WordPress install once every few weeks, or those who are overwhelmed with the information presented below and would like someone else to [...]