Tag: Wordpress

Posts about Wordpress

Why you should create a globally recognized Gravatar

Thomas

If you don’t already have a Gravatar  you should create on right away.! What is a Gravatar A gravatar is a profile picture or at least a graphical representation also called an avatar. It follow you around, when you are leaving blog comments on others blog. If you don’t have a gravatar, you will often see one of these gray no name figures next to your blog comments. When I leave a comment on a blog somewhere, I always get my own little picture next to the comment. That makes…

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Optimizing the MySQL database for WordPress

Thomas

Have you ever been wondering about the database underneath WordPress? Lately I have had the issues that my WordPress seems to have become very slow. I started to check out my active plugins on my blog that I don’t need any more and that might speed things up a bit. Like always before I start on thing like that, I made a complete backup of my blog (MySQL database and files).

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What is new in the WordPress 3.5.2 Release

Thomas

Yesterday June 21, 2013 WordPress 3.5.2 was released for public download. This updated is a minor maintenance update fixing 12 bugs in WordPress 3.5 and 3.5.1. It is mainly a security release and you should not wait too long to upgrade your blog. In fact the WordPress team “strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately”. The update includes 7 security fixes that you don’t want to miss.

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