Category Archives: wordpress

slightly fixed

Things that suck: having to change your permalinks.
They’re called permalinks for a reason, but if for some unknown reason you keep getting CGI errors on the old links you can’t just keep that setting can you? So now I’m using the old and ugly WP default permalink structure again, linking to a post using it’s [...]

pros and cons of hosting your own site

The way I see it, you have two good and one bad option to host your own website or blog. I’ll start with the bad one so we get that over with, which is hosting your site from a machine running at home over your DSL or cable connection. It’s cool if you want to [...]

wordpress backup

An interesting article I came across quite a while ago but didn’t get around to writing a post about is wordpress’ backup facility.
Now the easiest way of doing this IMO, is by activating and using the backup plugin which comes with WP by default. Just activate it and you’ll get a Backup link in the [...]

wordpress upgrade

So I went ahead and upgraded to the latest and greatest Wordpress version, being v2.1.2. Always a bit tricky this kind of thing, but I have to say that I never ran into any real issues when upgrading so kudos for the guys working on WP and making the upgrade truly easy and only taking [...]