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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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WordPress users a bunch of tight arses?

Posted April 10, 2010 in | 7 Responses

Are you a Wordpress user that gives back to your community or are you one of those folks that takes and takes and then whines at the smallest hiccup?…

10 Reasons why people stop blogging

Posted January 26, 2010 in | Leave a response

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

Posted November 16, 2009 in | 3 Responses

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

Posted October 21, 2009 in | 4 Responses

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

Posted October 12, 2009 in | 7 Responses

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

Posted September 17, 2009 in | 5 Responses

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

Posted September 7, 2009 in | Leave a response

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

Posted August 15, 2009 in | 2 Responses

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

Posted April 22, 2009 in | 2 Responses

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

Posted February 16, 2009 in | Leave a response

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!…

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