WordPress Tips

WP 2.8.5 Needs Mucho Memory

For those of you on shared hosting plans, you may notice that WordPress needs more memory than ever. Perhaps you’ve found that out while you’ve attempted to upgrade to WP 2.8.5. We’ve seen:

  • WordPress and/or certain plugin updates hanging

WordPress releases have been fast and furious in 2009

We love WordPress, but hasn’t it been a bit dizzying to keep up with all those releases made in 2009?

Beginning in February, we were treated to 2.7.1 (Coltrane), then we were lulled until June when 2.8 ( Baker) was…

Display a warning message to IE6 users

Are you tired of visitors still using the obsolete and buggy IE6? We are. With yesterday’s launch of Internet Explorer 8, there is little excuse to not upgrading. But for those who insist on using this platform, you can warn…

Create a handwritten signature with a WordPress shortcode

Did you ever want to add a handwritten signature to your posts just like you would when signing a letter? Here’s a nice code snippet to create a “signature” shortcode.

First, you have to get a signature image. To do…

Burned Your Feed at Feedburner? Google is Taking it Over

Google purchased Feedburner (our favorite feed mirror and statistics company) in the summer of 2007, and they now are pushing FeedBurner users to move their accounts under the Google umbrella.

Google has set a deadline for transfering your feeds: February…

Tip: Keep Your Blogs Copyright Year Automatically Up-to-Date

Here’s a quick little tip to help keep your blogs copyright year automatically up to date. Many themes already include this functionality, but some do not. This code should work with any PHP based system but we are focusing on…