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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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!!

Wordpress now at 2.7.1

within a few hours of Wordpress 2.7.1 being released I completed the upgrade for this blog. Also worth noting that I am running on latest nightly build of K2 (r756). Both upgrades were over and done with in well under the hour.

Build it and they will come!

the number of visitors to this blog is slowly increasing. To give you an example – yesterday was a bit of a record day with close to 800 visitors!! Based on the traffic from the past few weeks we can expect well over 100,000 visitors to Trupela Tok this coming year. See the stats page for yourself

10 Ways to improve a Wordpress Blog

Some of you might have noticed that a day doesn’t go by without something on this blog changing. In the true spirit of Kaizen I continue to aspire to and climb the learning curve of Wordpress – always learning something new and testing “things” out – thus facilitating perpetual change and improvement that in a nice sort of way has become a hallmark

The Files Download section

Just in case you were not aware this blog has a section/area which contains an assortment of files available for general download – there are currently a total of 16 files

Blog stats and SEO

another weekend bites the dust! Found myself cleaning up the blog stats page. – added and removed a few items and tidied up the layout a little. Learnt a little bit more today about SEO and how it relates to the follow and index tags. Stumbled across an excellent SEO tool for Firefox called: “Search Status”- allows one to highlight all nofollow links for any web page.

RSS feeds changed back to full text

to all newsreader subscribers: Stuff it!! after telling you the other day that RSS would now show excerpts – I have had a change of mind – all RSS feeds have been changed back to full text posts.

A big thank you to all plugin developers

Ma.tt (from Wordpress.org) has declared January 28th the official “Thank a Wordpress Plugin Developer” day. Cool!! The guys that develop these plugins do so in their own time and expect little in return. Excellent work and a big thanks all the way from Papua New Guinea!! Click here for a list of plugins that are currently active on Trupela Tok (it also includes the author names)

RSS Feeds will now show excerpt only

to all newsreader subscribers: RSS feeds will now only show an excerpt of the post – full text of the post has been disabled. If you subscribe to my blog via an RSS feed you will need to visit Trupela Tok to read the full story. If you are a regular and have an issue with this change then please drop me a line

Taking PingPressFM for a test run

I’m taking PingPressFM for a bit of a test run. A Wordpress Plugin that will automatically publish my posts to various Social Networks – eg: Twitter and Facebook. If you are reading this then the scheduled feature is working OK. Why would I want to do this? I hear you ask !!

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