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How to upgrade WordPress in under 7 minutes using CPanel

Inspired by 5xmom to create this video as she blogged about hitting snags in upgrading her WordPress blogs. Can’t argue with a person who has 20+ WordPress blogs. Anyway, this is a personal preference of mine and I must say there is no best method. I prefer to upgrade WordPress by using CPanel. I do […]

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My First Splog

Oh no! I’m now a splogger! Please don’t hate me. I’m not stealing your content. I’m just “syndicating it”. Nice word isn’t it - syndicate. Anyway I am not going into the debate of content syndication and outright content stealing. I’m just going to go ahead and document what I did to create my first […]

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Hacked WordPress core to add No Follow links

I’ve been procrastinating on restoring one of my PR Zero blogs to it’s original PR4 because the thought of manually looking for each sponsored post and deleting it was just too daunting. Today, I finally bit the bullet and added “No Follow” tags to the links. I think this is much easier and faster than […]

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Trying out WordPress 2.5 RC2

If you have multiple blogs, you can do what I do. Pick one that is not your main blog and try out WordPress 2.5 RC2. I’ve just installed it and now running the new release candidate. If you are adventurous enough you can download it here. Otherwise see the preview video on it’s features.

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Have you secured your Wordpress.com namesake?

I have been registering like crazy WordPress.com sub domain name that is similiar in name or keywords to my main blogs. Eg: GilaChess, AndrewOoi, CameronHighlands, Tanah Rata etc.
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Lazy Sunday..

After crazy month of blogging non stop on this blog, I can finally slow down and just laze at home. One of my free chess digramming tool - ChessPublisher.com runs on WordPress and I forgot to activate Akismet plugin on it. Spam bots are starting to know the website existence so the spam comments has […]

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Corporate style sites with WordPress

I’ve wrote about small companies charging exhorbitant fees to create simple websites for companies. My suggestion was that anybody with a little knowledge of WordPress could come out with similiar corporate style websites leveraging WordPress impressive list of themes.
Ok so here’s what I was talking about. I recently created a website for a company dealing […]

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Installed Autoping PPS on WordPress

I’m tired of going to PetalingStreet.org and filling in the pinging form. Tried out LiewCF’s hack for auto-pinging Petaling Street on this blog. I guess if I’m going WordPress autposting feature, I might as well install the auto-pinging hack. Liew wrote this in 2005 and I’m surprised that it still works and there is […]

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Blogging Pro Theme Hacked and Widgetised

I needed a 336 wide ad for my sidebar so I modified the Blogging Pro Theme to include a block just above the 2 column sidebar.

 

Also found that the original Blogging Pro theme does not support widgets so I added in widget support. There’s still some bugs in this themes such as tables not showing […]

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In the midst of changing WordPress Theme

It’s great timing that I found the announcement of new themes in my WordPress dashboard. I had some problems with my previous theme. This one called PhotoshopFox is exactly what I want.
Simple 2 columns with wide sidebar enough to fit my 336 with ads like Nuffnang and TTZMedia. Even though this theme is simple, the […]

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Conquering Cameron Highlands, one website at a time

Yes I am still in Cameron Highlands and scheming on conquering this beautiful place… if only in cyberspace / virtual world
The plan is to conquer and own Cameron Highlands on the Search Engine Result Page (SERPs).
Tanah RataI’m beginning to catch “prime” WordPress URL such as TanahRata.wordpress.com and Tanah-Rata.blogspot.com not because of some deep […]

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Not happy with my Wordpress Theme

I’ve been using this theme for a couple of months now but I’m not happy with it.
Bad SEO
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Autoposting feature in WordPress

I’m used to having features like auto-posting in my XOOPS based CMS website. Auto-posting is a feature where your article is posted at a set date and time. The advantage is that you can prepare many articles ahead of time and
let them post automatically. This is great to keep your website
regularly updated.
I went around looking […]

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Install Wordpress in root or /blog folder?

I noticed that several of our top local bloggers use the /blog folder to install their WordPress. I thought that to be odd. Then I realise many automatic WordPress installation provided by webhosts install them in the /blog folder. Personally, I prefer www.liewcf.com instead of www.liew.com/blog, don’t you? For one thing, /blog just adds unnecessary […]

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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.2.3

It wasn’t easy what with the extra slow internet connection these past few days.
This blog was actually just one big blank white screen after some files failed to upload completely. The problem was compounded further when there was no clear error message indicated, so I did not even know which file to reupload.
The solution:Forget about […]

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Upgraded from PostNuke to WordPress

I have 2 major websites, both at Google PR4/10 and both are about chess. What can I say? I am a chess nut. In fact, one of my website is named GilaChess.com . The other website is chess improvement blog running on WordPress. GilaChess.com is my first website that has gained somewhat of a small […]

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WordPress Blank Screen of Death

One of the scariest part of using WordPress is upgrading the software when new releases come out. Since this blog is new, upgrading from version 2.1.3 to 2.2 was not too risky as there’s not much content here.
I then proceded to upgrade my other new chess improvement blog ThePatzer and got hit by the scariest […]

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Spreading a little link love

I just learnt about the no-follow tag. Let’s say you make a comment on your friend’s blog. Apparently, search engines will see the comment but the URL that you place on the comment will not be followed. That means search engines like Google won’t follow the comment you left back to your URL. Google will […]

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