I used to upgrade WordPress manually using FTP. I would update a local copy of the website, make sure everything works on my laptop and then upload it to the server. Not that I don’t trust WordPress automatic upgrade but I am paranoid that my custom plugins and changes will break the site. However, starting […]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of WordPress which was first released on May 27th, 2003. WordPress now powers countless number of blogs in the Internet via the community driven project WordPress.org and the hosted solutions at WordPress.com. This site has been running on WordPress since the beginning, in 2005. Being sick today, I will not […]

I am not going to announce or talk about the release of WordPress 3.1 as I know that most people already know it was released on 23 February 2011. I am also not going to talk about the features. I would like to share problems that I encountered and how to fix them. Well, I […]

Today, I saw that Facebook introduced some new features, and one intriguing feature is called “Facebook Social Plugin“. It would be very interesting to have blog posts to be simply “liked”, and having information displayed about activities and recommendations related to your website. So I decided to take 30 minutes of my break time and […]

My other half and I have always loved Secret Recipe. Among our favorite dishes are the Thai Fried Rice, Vietnamese Beef Noodle, Singapore Laksa, and not forgetting the cakes. It’s a Malaysian brand, and it provides good food. However we have not been visiting any outlets since a couple of months ago because we had […]

WordPress keeps being updated but your themes rarely change unless you’re a theme developer. I wanted to add a leaderboard but I was delaying because I am too lazy to add any custom code to my theme. Silly me I forgot that I have already added an extra “sidebar” when I developed the theme for […]

There is an interesting development at my current office where people are starting to create their own, self-hosted WordPress installations. This is a very good culture! And all this thanks to Mr Rizal, the blogging evangelist (or should I say WordPress evangelist?). I hope he’s not just doing this because he’s leaving us soon! Sob, […]

I am a blogger. (What a stupid statement when writing a blog post). Anyway, I just wish everyone could install the Subscribe To Comments plugin so that I will know when they (or anyone for that matter) responds to my comments. Today I have to remember which blog post I posted my comments on and […]

WordPress 2.6 has been released. Go get WordPress 2.6 now!. Or you can also read the development blog for the complete details.

While toying around with NextGen code so that I can activate my custom image mirror, I saw the output from Firebug. I noticed that my HTML output is not compressed (by the absence of gzip content-encoding). Some Apache servers have this module already enabled (previously mod_gzip a 3rd party module in Apache 1, and now […]

As everyone might have realized by now, WordPress 2.3 has been released. WordPress 2.3 contains many improvements mentioned in the release page, and one of the most critical change is to the database structure where several database has been removed and added. Relations are all different now, so plugin authors: check your plugins! What I […]

Update: 20 January 2010: This plugin has not been tested with WordPress 2.9 and may break because 2.9 has internal changes. I am still trying to find time. Sorry for the Inconvenience. I have written another simple WordPress plugin that simply display a collapsible archive in the sidebar. You can see it in action in […]

How cool is this! WordPress Shop is now selling WordPress red t-shirt worldwide. It’s gonna cost about RM100.00 including shipping for Malaysians. For the rest of the world, the t-shirt costs £9.50 and delivery is £4.50 but if you share with friends the delivery cost would be (£4.00 x Quantity) + X where X is […]

So the next weekend I will be flying to San Francisco to attend WordCamp 2007 on 21-22 July. This event is a 2-day conference for WordPress users and developers. The first day will focus on how to be a better blogger, the second on the development and future of WordPress. Yeah right! Did you believe […]

I have just finished upgrading this blog and 6 others maintained (not owned) by me. The transition from 2.2 to 2.2.1 is generally very smooth, as there’s no database changes involved. I simply uploaded only the changed files as listed here. I am rushed to upgrade to 2.2.1 since there is a lot of security […]