A new friend of mine, Jamie Oaster, has brought up the issue of premium plugins and the potential business models surrounding them. WordPress is GPL software, and that means that plugins by proxy are supposed to all be released under GPL, as are all themes. This has severely limited the creation of a sustainable business [...]
What are they? Permalinks are used as the permanent link to your post or page, most WordPress users like what are considered “clean” or “pretty” permalinks, where information is put in the link, such as the title of the post, or even the date. The default by WordPress is to use post numbers, but that [...]
When WordPress 2.4 comes out on January 24th, the first thing pretty much everyone will notice is a brand new WordPress Admin panel design. The user interface side of things doesn’t appear to have changed much, but there is a huge graphical change, and some minor new features. For taking a small moves approach to [...]
Logging In Getting to your WordPress login screen is easy, as the file that is the login page is wp-login.php and can be found by typing in the URL of your blog, then forward slash, and finally wp-login.php. e.g. www.testblog.com/wp-login.php I usually bookmark the actual administration page (www.testblog.com/wp-admin/), so that if I am already logged [...]
So over the course of this site’s life, there has already been over one hundred thousand words posted here. That includes four guest posts since the site began, the rest, are all mine. Where did I find this information? Well, a friend of mine Joost de Valk, no relation to the online television service, has [...]