08 Sep 2012
27If, like me, you have a large number of WordPress sites, and maybe even a large collection of WordPress development projects running on a local web server, you will appreciate how painful a WordPress core update can be. Sure, WordPress now has Multisite capabilities, but if your sites are spread… More »
Category: WordPress
Removing the WordPress admin file editor
How many times have you handed over a project to a client, only to receive a phone call two weeks later saying “I think I broke the site…”? Maybe your client used the theme file editor that is built in to the WordPress admin pages, without having a clue about… More »
How to rename the WordPress admin account
These days WordPress lets you choose an admin username when you create a new installation, but there are probably still millions of WordPress sites out there with an admin username of “admin”. This is not great for security, as it is one less thing for a hacker to guess or… More »
Quick post thumbnail check in WordPress Admin
The post thumbnail feature introduced in WordPress 2.9 is an absolute boon, but the WordPress core developers missed a small trick which would have made the use of post thumbnails even easier. Wouldn’t it be good if you could go to the admin pages where you edit posts and pages… More »
10 Essential WordPress Plugins in 2011
Every so often I write a post like this one – and this is a subject worth revisiting, since new and better plugins get released all the time, and older ones stop being supported. Since my last article of this nature, two years and a whole load of WordPress releases… More »
