TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Do you use WordPress? We previously reviewed the first public beta of WordPress 3.0 back in April. Today, Automattic has just announced the gold release of WordPress 3.0, with numerous new features, including multi-site, menu editor, custom backgrounds, headers, post types, and much more. Learn more about this new release in the video below as well as on our new BlogAirlines. What are your thoughts... 

For all of the fans of the popular WordPress blogging system (myself included), the first public beta of the next generation of WordPress has just been released a few days ago. Besides regular bug fixes, WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 introduces numerous new features including a new default theme, custom post types, and the merge of WordPress and WordPress MU. WP Admin Dashboard You may notice the dashboard... 

PHP is a very fast server side scripting language that is often used for dynamic content such as blogs including Tech Airlines. However, themes often contain many unnecessary PHP queries, especially those that are publicly distributed. Queries often request information from the database and even though its very fast, excessive requests could significantly slow down your site. Some Examples of Unnecessary... 

WordPress has many contact form plugins. The one I use here at Tech Airlines is called Contact Form 7. It’s extremely flexible and easy to use. However, the one thing that has always bugged me was that its 3 scripts (Ajax and 2 jQuery scripts) load on every single page regardless of whether or not its required and only 3 of the pages on this site require it. This can significantly slow down the... 

Matt Mullenweg has just announced today in a blog post the final gold release of WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”. There are numerous small but significant updates in this release. According to Matt, the “coolest new stuff from a user’s point of view” are: Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from... 

WordPress uses a configuration file named wp-config.php, which contains your database name and password in it, as well as other data such as your table prefix and your secret auth keys (as of WordPress 2.6). Normally when a user attempts to load wp-config.php directly, they will be faced with a blank page. However, what happens if there is a server problem with PHP which can happen and has happened... 

WordPress is the most popular self-hosting blogging script (and can be used as a CMS) on the internet used by thousands of sites. Because of its popularity, it is also a target for hackers. When a blog gets hacked (through methods like password brute force and SQL Injections), hacked and added content may be malicious, which can even cause a site to be banned and removed from Google and other search... 

WordPress Administrative Tasks as well as the Dashboard for adding posts, pages, themes, plugins, and changing settings are all located inside the /wp-admin directory. Hackers already know this so they can try to use brute force style attacks to guess your password. To help in preventing this, it would be best to limit access to the wp-admin directory so only you (and your writers) can access it. This...