For most WordPress users updating to a newer version is pretty straight forward: log into the WordPress dashboard, click on “Updates” and then select the option to update WordPress. Within 10 seconds or so you are set. Depending on the…

If some years ago the battle for the leading CMS online was still open (we had WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, TypePad, MovableType, to name the main ones), today we have a clear winner. As you guessed, it’s WordPress. The guys from…

Sometime ago I started trying to optimize the performance of DailyBlogTips, and during certain times of the day (i.e., peak hours) traffic was high and the responsive time was pretty awful. I started by changing my cache plugin, removed unnecessary…

If your site is responding quickly and rarely suffers downtimes then I wouldn’t recommend you to turn comments off on older posts, as this removes some of the visitor interaction and also makes your older posts more static. That being…

Over the past year I have moved a reasonable number of WordPress sites between different servers and hosting companies (around 10), and I picked up some tips and tricks along the way. First of if you search around the web…

The WordPress engine is pretty efficient out of the box, but once you start loading plugins the performance and responsiveness of your site might go downhill. On top of that the consumption of resources might become too big, possibly leading…

I am a bit stubborn when it comes to changing old habits. The same is true for technologies I use, WordPress plugins included. As such I have been using WP Super Cache for as long as I can remember, and…

Back in 2009 I wrote about a company that was developing a software to convert PSD files (i.e., the Photopshop formar) into functional WordPress themes automatically. They only had a beta version, and at that point I wasn’t sure if…

It has been a long time since I recommended a WordPress plugin, but here we go again. I started using this plugin on a niche site, and so far it seems to be helping a lot with the search engine…

I believe I installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin around three years ago. If you are not familiar with the plugin, it basically allows people posting comments on your site to subscribe to new comments via email. In order words,…

As most of you guys probably know WordPress.com is the hosted version of the WordPress software. You can sign-up for a free account there and get a blog with an address like yourblog.wordpress.com. While I don’t recommend the hosted version…

A couple of weeks ago Pawan from MaxBlogPress.com contacted me, saying he had developed a new plugin that would significantly boost the number of sign-ups I was getting to my email newsletter. I have known Pawan for a while, and…

A couple of weeks ago a major version of WordPress was released: WordPress 3.0. As usual, WordPress users were divided in two camps: those who went ahead and update dimmediately, and those who didn’t. I saw many comments in the…

If you log into your WordPress control panel now you’ll see a message saying: “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now.” This is one of the major releases, and as a consequence many new features were introduced. For example, the…

The guys from PluginBuddy recently launched a premium backup plugin for WordPress called BackupBuddy, and they asked me if I was interested in having a contest giving 5 copies away for my readers. I said “Sure”, since it is a…

My friend John Chow is launching a premium plugin to manage the WordPress comment section, called Standout Comments, and he sent me a copy of the plugin to review. There are many free plugins out there to help you customize…

As you probably know version 2.9 of WordPress created a small bug with the cron jobs feature, so scheduling posts ahead of the time was not working correctly. The WordPress community acted pretty fast to fix everything, though, and the…