A friend of mine on a forum was curious on how to make the in-text popup advertisements only show up on older posts. Kontera, among others, supply those advertisements that are special links that show a content box when you hover over them. He found it too intrusive for his everyday readers, and so only wanted to show it on posts older than a week.

Recently I got the opportunity to give WordPress MU a real spin, using it to power a national blog network. A few weeks in, these are my thoughts on if you really should hold WordPress MU as a serious contender to multiple WordPress installs.

So today I wanted to take some time to talk about how you can make a WordPress theme more friendly for your clients, friends and general distribution by taking advantage of the template system built in to WordPress.

We are going to start with the header, an often misunderstood part of the WordPress theme.

If you’re having doubts about moving to a new host, either for reliability reasons or just because you’ve outgrown your current one, this might help you out. The built in tools in WordPress makes that database hassle a breeze, and here’s how.

As WordPress continues to evolve and change, and your blogs grow as well, you may no longer use certain plugins, but forget to deactivate them or remove them and this could lead to a huge security issue down the road.

Today while at work I was browsing my feeds when I stumbled across a very odd headline: You got h4ck3d!
I thought it was a joke. So I went to the website.

As you can see from the image, the hack is legit. The author promptly removed the post within a [...]

If you are managing a WordPress installation and for some reason, maybe a hacker, you no longer have access to your WordPress Administration panel using your user name and password, then it might be time to change that information using WordPress' database.

You would think that over the long period since everyone used static pages for their websites, we wouldn't have to come full circle, but with the ever increasing audience of web savvy users, database calls can bring a website to its knees.

Do huge waves of traffic have to bring your WordPress powered site down? Not if you are properly prepared.

Ever want the ability to log in to your WordPress blog via the blog itself? A simple tip shows you how to move the login form from the login page, right onto your blog.

Lots of people have been waiting all day for this, and now Wordpress 2.3 is finally out. You can grab it here. I'm going to be making the upgrade now, so if you run into anything not functioning over the next little while, that'd be why. Expect a full 2.3 report tomorrow afternoon.