I went onto Feedburner today to put the “Socialize” feature onto a blog I run, because I’ve been having problems with an automatic Tweet solution I had installed, only to discover that the Socialize feature had vanished from my options. … Continue reading
The Cheltenham Festival for 2012 is but 4 weeks away now, so those of us who, like me, enjoy watching occasional horse racing – not the committed armchair punters, though – will be thinking about betting on horse racing when … Continue reading
I’ve said it a few times, and I’ll say it again: it is rare, if not impossible, to get something of value for free. If you get it for “free” chances are either a) you will be paying for it, … Continue reading
Somebody set the press releases free! Please! They are tied up, held, locked in, trapped. Somebody needs to set them free. The press releases should be flowing, like water, down the channel into the journalists’ eyes. The press releases should … Continue reading
A lot of people want to know how to remove the little bit of information that says “Posted By:…” on WordPress. Well, in this “How To” post for today, I will tell you just how to remove that irksome bit … Continue reading
If your WordPress database is looking on the large side, and you’ve noticed that the “wp_posts” table is bigger than the amount of actual posts you have, then maybe you might like to run a quick query that deletes all … Continue reading
Now, if you’re a blogger like me, and, like me, you use WordPress to run that blog, you might have come to a time when you needed to remove a lot of posts, or a lot of categories or tags. … Continue reading
On a blog that runs on WordPress, sometimes you can end up with a lot of tags which are no longer used – for example if you just deleted a whole heap of posts. You might want to free up … Continue reading
For some reason, Akismet, and other WordPress plugins leave comment meta lying about from comments which have been deleted. This can lead to a whopping wp_commentmeta table on blogs which are on the larger or more popular side (like this … Continue reading
Sometime on WordPress, you have to delete a lot of posts, or post revisions, or something else, on the fly, using SQL. If you have done this recently, and have left a heap of now orphaned – or useless – … Continue reading