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Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade To Wordpress 2.8.2

Edward — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:25:55 +0000

Every Wordpress user knows how important it is to update a blog to the latest version of Wordpress to avoid being hacked by some authorised users. However, if you are using the following plugins, I would advise you to stick with it until a stable version of Wordpress is release in the future because of the following glitches :

1. Slow Speed When Creating Sitemap

It took 16 seconds to create a sitemap using the Google XML sitemap plugin. Unless Wordpress 2.6, it only requires 5 seconds to notify Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.

2. Couldn’t Upload Image Using Flash Uploader

I can only upload images using browser uploader. Not sure if anyone is facing the problem though.

3. WP emoticons showed up in comments section

Why would they show up above my comments when they are supposed to be in the new post section??

If you have not upgrade to Wordpress 2.8.2 please be patient and wait until further release of Wordpress. You will be better off with the one that you are using right now.

Internal Server Error 500 For Wordpress Blog

Edward — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:13:03 +0000

Few days ago I experienced minor problems when I installed the latest version of Wordpress to one of my blogs. After everything has been uploaded to the server, I created a sample post & tried to view it as a single post. When I clicked on it I was redirected to Internal Server Error 500 page. Not problem to get to index.php but things started to go wrong when i entered single.php. Here’s the full error description :

500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@your-domain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Now some of you may have arrived at this page when you googled for solutions about this error. Basically errors occured because of the following reasons :

1. The file permissions for your WordPress files is incorrect
2. One of the rules in your WordPress .htaccess file. may be incorrect

If error occured because of the 1st reason, you should login to your web hosting account and look at the error log. There is a particular directory that is writeable by group. Change the permission to 755

If error occured because of the 2nd reason, copy this code to your .htaccess file :

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Hope this solves your problem

Wordpress 2.7 is Out Now!

Edward — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:38:01 +0000

Wordpress 2.7 has been released on the 10th of December 2008. A lot of new features have been added as Wordpress team has taken a big step to make it more usable and accessible. As you can see the dashboard has been changed into a more stylish & elegant view compared with the previous versions. Listed are the full features of Wordpress 2.7 :

* XMLRPC Comments API
* Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation
* Sticky Posts
* Theme update api, like we do for plugins
* Dashboard and write box rearranging
* One-click plugin installs
* Reply to comments from admin
* Core updating
* Frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
* Plugin browser embedded
* PHPXref hosted on WordPress.org
* Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements
* Comment threading
* Comment paging
* Batch and inline editing
* HTTPOnly cookies
* Column hiding for all management pages
* Post box hiding for all edit pages
* Upgrades and install over SFTP
* Template Tag wp_page_menu wrapper for wp_list_pages and support for Home page

Still haven’t download the latest version? Get to download it now!

Random Post Wordpress Plugin

Edward — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:30:37 +0000

If you have some great articles in your archive but afraid your visitors might not be able to go through them then this plugin might suits your needs : Introducing the Random Post Wordpress Plugin

Random Post Wordpress Plugin

By uploading this plugin you may display a selected amount of post to appear on your front page. Visit this page to get the latest information about the plugin

Wordpress Theme – Firefox Mac

Edward — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:32:08 +0000

After few days of tweaking, it’s finally here – The cool looking Firefox Mac wordpress theme! Here’s the screenshot of the wordpress theme

Well I LOVE both Firefox & Mac, too bad there isn’t any wordpress theme out there which is created based on it so I thought why don’t I created it myself? & this is how this Firefox Mac wordpress theme is born…

Like it? Download the Firefox Mac file here

Suggestion? Please leave your comment in the comment box below. Have fun!

Free Wordpress Theme – Sweet Strawberry

Edward — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:49:40 +0000

Sweet Strawberry is a two columns layout Wordpress theme created by myself. The header looks relaxing & clean, perfect for those who wants to have a nice & neat personal blog It took me quite some time to build it, so for those who are going to use this theme, all I hope is not to remove my link for your blog, appreciate that~

*Demo*
To get a better feel of this theme, check out the demo

*Download*
sweet-strawberry.zip

Installation:
Upload the extracted folder(Sweet Strawberry) to wp-content/themes, click on “Presentation” in the administration panel and select it from the list. Voila!

This is the very first Wordpress theme that I developed, if you have any suggestion feel free to leave a comment or contact me. Hope you all like it!

Screenshot :

Just Out Of Curiousity…

Edward — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:36:33 +0000

How long does it takes for you to write a post? For me if I have an idea of what to write, normally it would take 15-30minutes, however if I don’t have any idea 2hours depends on how long is my post, or else I just wait & wait until I got the inspiration… Sometimes it takes more time to think rather than write; Avoid writing boring posts, interact with readers through post, try not to criticize other blogs, etc… However if you have nothing to blog about you can always refer to my blog post regarding things to do when you have nothing to blog about, hope you can learn some great tips over there

Here’s a tip for those who couldn’t type fast: Open several conversation windows on MSN to chat with leng zai/leng lui, if you type slow, you won’t get your dream boy/girl, so you have no reason to type slow now

Technorati Tags: blog, post, speed, MSN

What I’ve done~

Edward — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:01:28 +0000

If you have paid attention to my blog sidebar, then you will noticed that my blog’s sidebar widgets has disappeared, only left are the original sidebar widgets which were created by the theme author. Anyone knows how to fix it? I went to the plugin page but couldn’t move the items below back to top… Help me~

Oh btw, one of my reader has sent me an email saying that my blog has too many football posts & it makes him feel boring, luckily I still write something interesting in my life or else he won’t come back to my blog. Well, while I like soccer but still “content is the king” & it is the most important factor that will keep attracting readers to my blog, so tell me: Will you still read my blog if I keep posting football articles? Do tell me frankly & maybe I will adjust a lil bit…

My result for the first semester will be announced tomorrow at 10a.m. I’m a bit worried since I did not do well in my exam for the Accounting subject. For your info, I took science stream during secondary school & I REALLY regret about that decision because basically I learn nothing during the 2 years period… & starting from this semester TARC will start their new grading system, which makes it harder to pass (The previous passing mark was 40)

GRADE	MARKS RANGE	GRADE POINT	DESCRIPTION
A A-	80 – 100 75 – 79	4.00 3.75	HIGH DISTINCTION DISTINCTION
B+ B B-	70 – 74 65 – 69 60 – 64	3.50 3.00 2.75	MERIT MERIT MERIT
C+ C	55 – 59 50 – 54	2.50 2.00	PASS PASS
C- D	45 – 49 40 – 44	1.75 1.00	FAIL/REDEEMABLE FAIL/REDEEMABLE
F	0 – 39	0.00	FAIL

Haiz, how am I going to die tomorrow… Wish me luck will ya?

‘E’ for Edward

Edward — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:09:39 +0000

Can you see a letter E image beside my URL (Circled in Red)? It’s a favorite icon, or better known as “favicon”. As soon as you have uploaded favicon to your blog, it will appear beside your site’s name in the favorites list, before the URL in the address bar, as a bookmarked website on the desktop, in the “Links” bar and on the windows taskbar.

Why Should I use Favicon?
Easy, to let your blog stands out amongst the other with a small, nice image as your blog’s unique icon.

Sounds cool! But I don’t know how to upload a Favicon, can you please teach me?
Sure! All you need to do is click here & you will be brought to a place where you can download the plugin, upload it & insert the picture address. Done!

Note: IE may not work properly to see your favicon, so it’s better to have a view of it using Firefox

I am using Blogspot, is there any alternative of uploading favicon?
Yup, here’s what you can do:
1st Step: Go to a Favicon generator site, for example Chami, browse your image and click “Generate FavIcon.ico”

2nd Step: Choose to download the favicon from the site, after you have downloaded, extract it on your computer and then look in the “extra” folder.

3rd Step: Now you can go to a Image Hosting Provider for example Photobucket, and upload either the animated_favicon1.gif if you want it to be animated or the preview_16×16.png for the plain image.

4th Step: Log in to your Blogger account, go to your Blogger admin panel and click on the template tab and then “Edit HTML”.

5th Step: Add this code before the in your template (replace the URL with your own link to the image):

Then save it! And you’re done!

16 Wordpress Themes That Don’t Suck

Edward — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:12:48 +0000

Do you have a blog powered by Wordpress? If your answer is ‘Yes’ that means you must have faced some problems choosing themes that suits your blog. Try to type the keyword ‘Wordpress Themes’ in Google & you will see a collection of free Wordpress themes, however, not all of them are nice, in other word — SUCK! That’s how I came out with this idea — Build a list of Wordpress themes that don’t suck so you won’t need to try so hard getting nice-looking themes. Satisfaction guaranteed!