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Saturday 21 September 2013
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After all the anticipations and talk-abouts, it’s finally out. You can take a real sneak peak into the WordPress 2.5. For those of you who are curious what’s inside this new version of WordPress, you can now download a copy of the Release Candidate 1 from WordPress development blog, install and test it out on your web account.
This is however, not the official copy yet, but it’s good to test it
out and get familiar before you install the final release (which release
date are not announced yet). I do hope the final version will be very
similar to this RC-1.
Source:hongkiat.com
After RC1 (Release Candidate 1), WordPress today released RC2 for WordPress 2.5.
That means we are getting closer and closer to the official release. If
you’ve previously installed RC1 and tested it, you should noticed
there’s a major change in terms of the admin dashboard interface. In
RC2, Matt Mullenweg puts up a screencast covering the
new dashboard as well as how WordPress handles image uploading (which I
think is pretty fast and cool). Click here to watch the video.
Download WordPress Release Candidate 2
You are encourage to download and test out the Release Candidate 2. There is a tester mailing list
where you can report any bugs found; by doing this you are helping the
WordPress developers to further refining their codes and thus making the
official release of WordPress 2.5 faster.
Source:hongkiat.com
Two days ago, out of nowhere, a particular table in the WordPress in hongkiat.com went corrupted. The ‘wp_comments‘
table of the WordPress database just crashed without signs, warnings
nor error messages. So how did I came to know? Here are the symptoms:
- If you try to back up your database, you’ll be thrown with this error message – wp_comments is marked as crashed and should be repaired when using LOCK TABLES
- Recent comments widget appears blank.
- Top commenter widget appears blank.
- Comment posted will not be written into DB, therefore will not be shown.
- Comments section in WP Admin appears to have zero records.
After searching the Internet high and low in hoping to find similar
cases to help me identify and fix the problem, I end up with nothing. So
I tried it my way and luckily enough, I managed to solved it. I thought
writing the entry out will not only help those who suffered the same,
also keep myself reminded just in case I hit on this error again in the
future.
The fix / Solution
To fix this, you must have access to the wordpress database, either
via PhpMyAdmin or Secure Shell (SSH). Most shared hosting account comes
with phpMyAdmin, but either option you should be extremely careful
because you dealing with the database. Any wrong move will cause more
data lost.
PhpMyAdmin
In PhpMyadmin, select the WordPress database and look for the error table. In my case, the ‘wp_comments‘ table. Check it, and scroll all the way down and look for ‘With selected‘ drop-down box. Select Repair table and things should be alright.
Secure Shell
- Login to your shell
- Enter ‘mysql -u username -p database_name‘ to access databases
- Enter ‘show databases;’ to view all databases
- Enter ‘use database_name;‘ to engage the database
- Enter ‘show tables;‘ to show all tables within the database
- Enter ‘check table wordpress_table_name‘ to verify this is the corrupted table
- Fix it with ‘repair table wordpress_table_name‘
- Enter ‘check table wordpress_table_name‘ again to make sure it’s fixed
Source:hongkiat.com
You see those yellow stripe ad on the header of some blogs/websites?
We’ve mentioned how you can get one yourself previously in one of our
article – 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks.
However, that one we mentioned, you are required to pay to get rid of
the author’s message. If you are not ready to pay but want a clean
yellow stripe with nothing but your text ad, it’s still possible.
Check out these 2 tutorial links, little HTML/CSS knowledge required.
You’ve heard how good WordPress is in terms of expandability,
customization and you decided to give it a try. Installing a basic copy
of WordPress won’t take too long; but if you are looking for more
stability, traffics, search engine optimization, etc, here’s few of my
recommendation – The things you should do after installing WordPress.
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Get WordPress.com API Key, Activate Akismet
Where: Settings -> Akismet Configuration
In short, Akismet is a plugin (comes with WordPress) that will intelligently get rid of all the unnecessary comment and trackback spams. In order for Akismet to work, you’ll need a WordPress.com API Key. The key is free, but you’ll need to request for one and apply it on the Akismet plugin.
Sign up with WordPress, get Akismet Key.
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Implement Permalinks
Where: Settings -> Permalinks
Referring to the image above, ‘Default’ is each how your blog post
URL will look like. The ‘?=’ and numeric blog post ID does not make any
sense to the search engine, so it’s better to change them to something
more readable. Personally I’ll suggest Custom Structure and insert ‘/%postname%/‘. Here’s how your blog post URL will look like:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/2008/06/25/sample-post/
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Burn your feed with Feedburner
Feedburner combines all
different type of feeds into one, so your subscribers can subscribe to
one regardless of it’s type. Feedburner also comes with a chiklet,
allowing you to show off subscribers figures as well as promote
subscription.
Sign up with Feedburner
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Read/Subscribe to WLTC
weblogtoolscollection.com
(WLTC) is where you should keep an eye on if you are particular about
your WordPress blog. These guys have the latest updates in terms of themes, plugins, tips and WordPress News. There’s perhaps no where better to get everything about WordPress on one website.
Visit WLTC | Subscribe WLTC
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Plugin – Related Content
Related content plugin plays important role in helping you as the
blogger, recommending what your readers should also be reading apart of
the article they are on. You probably don’t need it now, but it’ll comes
in handy when there’s more blog post. A plugin worth mention.
Download WordPress Related Content plugin
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Plugin – Google XML Sitemap
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of
your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as
well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap
is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap
protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about
the update.
Download Google XML Sitemap
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