Over on the Anti (Social) Development, there is an interesting suggestion to use a Wordpress plugin (the maintenance mode plugin) that you run when you are testing new themes, changing layouts, upgrading Wordpress, or doing other maintenance. The idea is that readers…

A minor security vulnerability has been discovered in the Snoopy library using to fetch the newsfeeds displayed in your Wordpress Dashboard. Version 2.6.3 of Wordpress is now available to download, but you don’t have to go through the rigmarole of…

Sciencetext reader Keith N emailed with a question about the post I wrote explaining how to make html pages work like Wordpress. In that post I explained how to make pages ‘outside’ the Wordpress blog work as if they were…

It is a bit of a dilemma static or blog as the front-page? Kim Woodbridge recognized the issue early on, and discusses the details of how to handle a static front page on your blog. For me, Sciencetext is straightforward, it’s…

I’ve discussed the need to upgrade Wordpress to the latest version before, and have run through my positive experiences with the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. However, not everyone is so keen on the idea of automating such an important aspect of…