Category Archives: WordPress

UPDATE: Instead of changing multiple files, I finally decided to edit the is_ssl() function in the wp-includes/functions.php. old code: function is_ssl() { if ( isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ) { if ( ‘on’ == strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ) return true; if ( ’1′ == $_SERVER['HTTPS'] … Continue reading →

Spam has always been a nuisance and affects many web applications on the internet. It didn’t take long for my blogs to receive some spam comments when I migrated to WordPress. Fortunately, WordPress and its community make several plugins available … Continue reading →

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them that looks ugly. e.g. http://example.com/?p=123 WordPress offers you the ability to create custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives, which improves the readability, … Continue reading →

Currently the WordPress community provides 2200+ plugins for WordPress users to install. Most plugins are easy to install while some require you to do some simple PHP coding afterwards. To install a typical plugin, download the plugin and extract it … Continue reading →

WordPress is an open source blog publishing system written in PHP with a MySQL database. Installing WordPress Download and the latest release of WordPress. $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz Extracting the file will create a new directory wordpress, move all the files … Continue reading →