Back in November I mentioned a few of the cool new features introduced to WordPress 2.9, one of them being Trash. (see WordPress 2.9 Brings Cool New Features) With Trash enabled, should you accidentally delete any type of content such as post, page, comment etc it is moved to Trash where it can then be either restored or permanently deleted ala the Windows Recycle Bin. The default setting for content... continue reading
Have you ever written a post then hit the publish button only to discover you missed a typo? I've done it a few times even after proofreading my copy. Of course you can always edit the post but the problem is your RSS feed has already been published and sent out. You can't edit that and it will take some time for the caches of the various feed services to clear and reflect your edit. I'll show you... continue reading
A question I've seen from time to time is how do I disable my RSS feed? The answer is surprisingly easy. But before I get to that you may be wondering why someone would want to do that. There could be any number of reasons such as you're using WordPress as a CMS with basically static content rather than a blog with dynamic content. In this case a feed wouldn't really serve a purpose. Perhaps you're... continue reading
When you log in to your WordPress blog you are automatically redirected to the Dashboard area - an area displaying various widgets, each containing useful information such as Right Now, Recent Comments and Incoming Links to name a few. What if you wanted to disable some or all of them? One option is to click the Screen Options button at the top of the page which reveals all available dashboard widgets,... continue reading
A problem I see come up in the WordPress forums quite often is a blogger who is locked out of his own blog. This is usually a result of playing with the values found at Settings > General. See screenshot below. (click to enlarge) Although there are legitimate cases of wanting to change the Blog address (URL), such as when you are planning to give WordPress its own directory, for the vast majority... continue reading
