Wordpress

Wordpress is a blog publishing application and content management system. It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide.

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10 Reasons why people stop blogging

Getting a blog up and running can be as easy as 1-2-3. Most blogs come and go – others hang around for a little while – few go the distance.

A Post is a Category is a Story

Ever since March 2005 I have pumped out a total of approximately 1500 posts, which equates to 300 posts per year or an average of between 5 and 6 posts per week, grand total of over 500,000 words. Gives me sore fingers just thinking about it!

Upgrade your blog now to Wordpress 2.8.5

Trupela Tok was upgraded today from Wordpress 2.8.4 to 2.8.5. Within half an hour after reading about the upgrade via my newsreader it was all over and done with

Taking RSS to the next level with Simplepie

In an attempt to improve performance and also consolidate some of this blog’s functionality I have been busy decommissioning a few plugins

10 Qualities to look for in a Wordpress Plugin

I have been using Wordpress as a blogging platform for almost three years and during this time I have tried and tested hundreds of plugins. Many fall by the wayside almost instantly but others manage to stick around and

Greetings from under the Hood

When I started this blog back in March 2005 it was done purely for the purpose of keeping family and friends up to date whilst on a volunteer assignment in Papua New Guinea

Free Downloads

Awhile back a File Downloads section was added to Trupela Tok. Basically a collection of PNG resources and files available to site visitors for free download and access.

WordPress.com Popular Posts plugin

the Wordpress.com Popular Posts plugin is currently causing some strife – well it’s not the plugin itself – something is up with the stats servers at Wordpress.com (http://stats.wordpress.com/csv.php). Have shuffled a few things around the blog to compensate for this. Business as usual.

Website thumbnails served locally

this weekend I undertook the task of doing something which I think is pretty neat. There are plenty of free services available on the net that generate thumbnail shots of websites and then serve these to you on request. I have taken a slighly different approach. All website thumbnails now displayed on blog are being served from my own server! Therefore all thumbnails shown under Links and also here – come from my own site! Pretty cool eh!

Wordpress and Google Gears and quicktags

a strong suggestion from under the hood: if you happen to use wordpress + google gears + custom WP quicktags when you update quicktag.js – don;t forget to update google gears at the sane time or else!!

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