This feature seemed especially likely to be useful to me for my older blogs, the ones that had gone through imports and exports and lots of different plugins. At first I wasn’t sure what you were supposed to do besides pasting the code define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); into your config.php file. (And when I pasted it the… Continue Reading How to Repair and Optimize Your Database in WordPress 2.9
pageMash
If you’ve ever used WordPress to manage a site with more than two or three static pages, you’ve experienced the amazing awkwardness of the built-in method of ordering pages: That line about “We know this is a little janky, it’ll be better in future releases” has been there for as long as I can… Continue Reading pageMash
Manual Upgrades Are Not a Thing of the Past
What is it with certain webhosts? I mean, I know that none of the Fantastico-type installers have yet caught up to the fact that you can upgrade WordPress automatically from within the dashboard, so whenever you log into your control panel, it’s going to tell you that you need to upgrade even though you already… Continue Reading Manual Upgrades Are Not a Thing of the Past
WordPress Database Backup
If you lose your WordPress database, you’re screwed. And you may hope that your hosting company is backing it up, but are you sure? Besides, with all those hackers out there eagerly seeking out vulnerabilities in WordPress, it’s a good thing to have a copy or two or three of your database around. Continue Reading WordPress Database Backup
Akismet
There’s a good reason Akismet is bundled with WordPress: without it, we’d all be drowning in comment spam. It’s impressively effective: there’s not much spam that makes it through to the comment moderation queue, and it rarely marks genuine comments as spam. (You should give your spam list a quick once-over before deleting it, though,… Continue Reading Akismet
