Usually, upgrading WordPress is no big deal – click a button in the admin page, and voilà1 – done! However, for some odd reason my hosting company allocated just small amount for my web site and I couldn’t do an auto-upgrade. I had to do it the old fashion way, and download the TAR.GZ file […]
I finally did it. I broke down and paid someone to host my web sites. This blog is now officially on HostMonster. I picked the site through partial recommendation from Web Hosting Search. Originally, my site was hosted in my own Linux box over my home’s AT&T’s DSL line. The connection was less than decent […]
Summary: Apache web server tuning Place images and big files to a different host Use lightweight WP Themes Modify and tidy selected WP Themes Use WP Super Cache Reduce plugin use and remove bad ones. After the hardware refresh and Database tuning, it is now time to look into the applications. For this site, WordPress […]
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My friends and loyal readers will notice that I’ve changed my blog site’s look. Originally I was using the Wuhan Theme that served me well for some time. It was the first theme I selected after I switched to WordPress. It was a simple, yet robust, 2-column theme, with a great look and feel. I […]
The good thing about WordPress is the ability to change themes on my blog pages to whatever I can find out there. I found one called “Wuhan” and it struck me as nice and clear presentation, with good choices of colour. After a few modifications and the IE bug fix, here it is. I also […]