Yes, this post is posted with my iPhone. Search for WordPress in your Appstore.

Yes, this post is posted with my iPhone. Search for WordPress in your Appstore.

Wasn’t able to keep my Debian box up to date because of the nature of my work. Using a Win based laptop at the moment. I still get to play with CentOS Linux though for my web server.

Hopefully I still get free time to update this blog. Don’t worry, I still have a little this and that to share besides Linux. How about some iPhone tricks and tips? I carry a iPhone 4 and I believe I have much to share.

WordPress is now version 3.1.2, can’t believe I started at version 1.x. Give me sometimes to update. I believe the next post will be written from iPhone.

Thank you.

Hola everyone! I am back.

Wasn’t able to keep my Debian box up to date because of the nature of my work. Using a Win based laptop at the moment. I still get to play with CentOS Linux though for my web server.

Hopefully I still get free time to update this blog. Don’t worry, I still have a little this and that to share besides Linux. How about some iPhone tricks and tips? I carry a iPhone 4 and I believe I have much to share.

WordPress is now version 3.1.2, can’t believe I started at version 1.x. Give me sometimes to update. I believe the next post will be written from iPhone.

Thank you.

Please bear in mind that this is my very own personal experience. Try this at your own risk!

Situation:
Manually installed wordpress on my hosting account, getting tired of upgrading every new version. Decided to switch to Fantastico install, let it handle the upgrades.

Solution:
You must have these:

1. A Cpanel hosting account with Fantastico bundled.
2. A archiving tool(to zip your files).
3. A FTP program(to upload big files).

Step 1: Backup everything.
I seriously mean EVERYTHING. Download a home directory backup, and a Mysql database backup from your cpanel to local computer. Extract the files to see everything is in place(compare to your current hosting account home directory).

Step 2: Purge everything.
Delete everything starts with wp* inside your wordpress directory on the server. For me it is the public_html directory, it has only 1 directory called cgi-bin by default.

Delete your old mysql database for wordpress as well. Please make sure you have all the backups on your local computer.

Step 3: Install a fresh WordPress with Fantastico.
Pretty standard procedures here. At the end you will get a fresh wordpress at your desired location, for me it’s the webroot. You don’t need to actually login to admin area to do anything yet. Let’s get back the old data first.

Step 4: Restore all old data
4.1 Database
You should have an old database backup with you. Extract it and you will get a file xx.sql. For me it’s wp.sql, which I named the database last time.

Now go to your cpanel, inside ‘Mysql Database’, there’s a link at the bottom for you login to phpMyadmin. Inside phpMyadmin, on the left shows the available databases under your account.

If you removed the old database already, you should see only one on the list which has the name ‘wrdp1‘. This is default database name for new wordpress installed by Fantastico.

Go inside wrdp1 database and choose to import, just upload the old wp.sql file and wait. After it’s done, there will be message telling you how many queries have been made.

Leave phpMyadmin now since the database has been imported.

4.2 Files
Now check the backup you have downloaded, inside wordpress folder you should have your old wp-content folder. You should only take care of 3 things:

1. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/plugins‘ to your fresh installed wordpress, the directory structure should be exactly the same. Do not upload ‘akismet’ and ‘hello.php’
2. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/themes‘ to your fresh installed wordpress. Do not upload ‘classic’ and ‘default’.
3. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/uploads‘ to your fresh installed wordpress.

Step 5: Run the upgrade script
Open browser and go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Step 6: You are done
Things should be okay now, you should be able to login to admin area and your front end.

Again I must stress that this is not a tutorial, it is just my personal experience. If you have previously manual install wordpress on your own, you should pretty much have a clue about I am writing here.

Result:
You are looking at my blog isn’t it? The only uncertainty is……I am not sure whether can Fantastico upgrade the next version for me or not!

Happy upgrading anyway! Feedbacks are appreciated.

Just upgraded to WordPress version 2.7.1 from 2.6.3. I took a different approach this time. Manual upgrading wordpress has started to bore me since long time ago, and now I hope to get rid of the hassle once and for all, let cpanel’s Fantastico handle the upgrade from now on.

Please bear in mind that this is my very own personal experience. Try this at your own risk!

Situation:
Manually installed wordpress on my hosting account, getting tired of upgrading every new version. Decided to switch to Fantastico install, let it handle the upgrades.

Solution:
You must have these:

1. A Cpanel hosting account with Fantastico bundled.
2. A archiving tool(to zip your files).
3. A FTP program(to upload big files).

Step 1: Backup everything.
I seriously mean EVERYTHING. Download a home directory backup, and a Mysql database backup from your cpanel to local computer. Extract the files to see everything is in place(compare to your current hosting account home directory).

Step 2: Purge everything.
Delete everything starts with wp* inside your wordpress directory on the server. For me it is the public_html directory, it has only 1 directory called cgi-bin by default.

Delete your old mysql database for wordpress as well. Please make sure you have all the backups on your local computer.

Step 3: Install a fresh WordPress with Fantastico.
Pretty standard procedures here. At the end you will get a fresh wordpress at your desired location, for me it’s the webroot. You don’t need to actually login to admin area to do anything yet. Let’s get back the old data first.

Step 4: Restore all old data
4.1 Database
You should have an old database backup with you. Extract it and you will get a file xx.sql. For me it’s wp.sql, which I named the database last time.

Now go to your cpanel, inside ‘Mysql Database’, there’s a link at the bottom for you login to phpMyadmin. Inside phpMyadmin, on the left shows the available databases under your account.

If you removed the old database already, you should see only one on the list which has the name ‘wrdp1‘. This is default database name for new wordpress installed by Fantastico.

Go inside wrdp1 database and choose to import, just upload the old wp.sql file and wait. After it’s done, there will be message telling you how many queries have been made.

Leave phpMyadmin now since the database has been imported.

4.2 Files
Now check the backup you have downloaded, inside wordpress folder you should have your old wp-content folder. You should only take care of 3 things:

1. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/plugins‘ to your fresh installed wordpress, the directory structure should be exactly the same. Do not upload ‘akismet’ and ‘hello.php’
2. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/themes‘ to your fresh installed wordpress. Do not upload ‘classic’ and ‘default’.
3. Upload everything in ‘wp-content/uploads‘ to your fresh installed wordpress.

Step 5: Run the upgrade script
Open browser and go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Step 6: You are done
Things should be okay now, you should be able to login to admin area and your front end.

Again I must stress that this is not a tutorial, it is just my personal experience. If you have previously manual install wordpress on your own, you should pretty much have a clue about I am writing here.

Result:
You are looking at my blog isn’t it? The only uncertainty is……I am not sure whether can Fantastico upgrade the next version for me or not!

Happy upgrading anyway! Feedbacks are appreciated.

Okay since I’m already here, allow me to share with you something that you probably already knew.

• CodeIgniter. CI, Code Igniter has been my all time favorite for the past year. It is a PHP Framework that does wonders. Any php web programmer should seriously have a look.
• Firefox3, this browser is storming the Internet. Regardless of the browser engine itself, the availability of countless Add-ons really makes everyone’s life easier.
• WordPress simply rocks. Endless surprises after I upgraded it to the latest 2.6.2 version. The new plugins management is a godsend, plus many other new features. This is why I am still publishing this blog post actually. I would like to test this version.
• GTA4. Grand Theft Auto 4. It is everywhere! I am waiting patiently for its PC version.

That’s all for now, I wish I will be able to write more in the coming days. There are many things I would still like to talk about!

Gosh it is almost a year since the last update in this blog. Apparently I have lost all the passion for blogging, but I am not sorry for that. We human seem to get addicted to many things, at different times. I am guilty though, for leaving this blog deserted and became a hive of spams. For this I must apologize, I hate spams as much as any of you. I will try my best to filter out stupid spams that bypass Akismet, on a weekly basis hopefully.

Okay since I’m already here, allow me to share with you something that you probably already knew.

• CodeIgniter. CI, Code Igniter has been my all time favorite for the past year. It is a PHP Framework that does wonders. Any php web programmer should seriously have a look.
• Firefox3, this browser is storming the Internet. Regardless of the browser engine itself, the availability of countless Add-ons really makes everyone’s life easier.
• WordPress simply rocks. Endless surprises after I upgraded it to the latest 2.6.2 version. The new plugins management is a godsend, plus many other new features. This is why I am still publishing this blog post actually. I would like to test this version.
• GTA4. Grand Theft Auto 4. It is everywhere! I am waiting patiently for its PC version.

That’s all for now, I wish I will be able to write more in the coming days. There are many things I would still like to talk about!

New features include:

1. Tagging – I used to have Ultimate Tag Warrior. Need some time to study on this.
2. Update Notification – You will be notified whenever a new release of WordPress is available, and new release of plugins.
3. Improved post and draft management – New “Pending Review” option.

For more details, please check here.

Here’s a list of plugins which I have also upgraded.

1. HeadSpace2
2. Sociable
3. WP Contact Form
4. WordPress Database Backup
5. Google Sitemap Generator

Please leave a comment here if you find any problem in this blog. Thank you.

This blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.3. It is recommended to upgrade because this release addressed a lot of bug. Details can be found here.

New features include:

1. Tagging – I used to have Ultimate Tag Warrior. Need some time to study on this.
2. Update Notification – You will be notified whenever a new release of WordPress is available, and new release of plugins.
3. Improved post and draft management – New “Pending Review” option.

For more details, please check here.

Here’s a list of plugins which I have also upgraded.

1. HeadSpace2
2. Sociable
3. WP Contact Form
4. WordPress Database Backup
5. Google Sitemap Generator

Please leave a comment here if you find any problem in this blog. Thank you.

I would also like to take this chance to introduce you guys a plugin which I have been watching closely, NOT YET installed. WordPress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin brought to you by techie-buzz.com, it will upgrade your wordpress blog automatically. Including download the archive to your web space, replace old files, setting file permissions and more.

As I’ve said I do not use this plugin yet, let’s wait and see. I have a very high expectation on this.

P/S: Please notify me if you find any error after this upgrade.

This blog has been updated to version 2.2.2. Only security updates for this release, again it is recommended to upgrade. Please visit the release page here. Details of bugs fixed can be found here. Instructions of upgrading is here.

I would also like to take this chance to introduce you guys a plugin which I have been watching closely, NOT YET installed. WordPress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin brought to you by techie-buzz.com, it will upgrade your wordpress blog automatically. Including download the archive to your web space, replace old files, setting file permissions and more.

As I’ve said I do not use this plugin yet, let’s wait and see. I have a very high expectation on this.

P/S: Please notify me if you find any error after this upgrade.

So I figured it’s time for me to organize all the posts in this blog and come out with a sitemap, in order to submit to the Google Webmaster Tools. Google Sitemap Generator is one of the top ten results upon Google search.

Download the plugin here. Upload the entire folder to your wordpress plugin directory after extract the zip file. You need to make sure that WordPress’s root directory is WRITABLE, because this plugin will generate two sitemap files in that directory.

Enable the plugin in the plugin management page, after that a new option page will be available under “Options”. I did not change much of the default settings, everything should work fine without any problem.

Every website on the WWW will have to kowtow to Google nowadays, as in comply to their webmaster’s guidelines. Having your site being listed in the supplemental search results is the last thing a webmaster ever wanted, besides being banned by Google Adsense.

So I figured it’s time for me to organize all the posts in this blog and come out with a sitemap, in order to submit to the Google Webmaster Tools. Google Sitemap Generator is one of the top ten results upon Google search.

Download the plugin here. Upload the entire folder to your wordpress plugin directory after extract the zip file. You need to make sure that WordPress’s root directory is WRITABLE, because this plugin will generate two sitemap files in that directory.

Enable the plugin in the plugin management page, after that a new option page will be available under “Options”. I did not change much of the default settings, everything should work fine without any problem.

I have just updated WordPress to version 2.2, this is a mandatory upgrade which means the 2.1.X branch will not be continued. Bloggers, you might want to upgrade your WordPress blog as soon as you can because this version consists of 244 bugs fixed.

New features including:

1. WordPress Widgets
   Drag and drop your sidebar items, as simple as that. It was available as a plugin, now being included in the core code.
2. Full Atom support
   Now besides RSS, you have another way to serve your blog feeds.
3. new Blogger importer
   Google Blogger full import. If you have a blogger.com account, and would like to switch to WordPress, you can keep all your posts and comments without any hassle.
4. Infinite comment stream
   This might sounds complicated. Actually it is just an AJAX feature that lets you moderate your blog’s comments with simpler way, as in you will always have 20 Items on the same page after you make some deletes.

For more features listing, please check out WordPress Release Page. Also, while we all enjoy using WordPress so much, see what the contributing author Matthew Mullenweg has to say in his blog.

Hello all, I feel embarrassed when I see the traffic of this blog still maintaining at the same level while I wasn’t able to update it on a weekly basis. It’s either my pillar posts(those in the popular entries) still pumps in all the traffics, or there’s really someone reading this blog. Either way, I feel bad. I’ll try to squeeze out more time for this blog, life’s being a bitch recently. I wish you all are doing fine if you are reading this.

I have just updated WordPress to version 2.2, this is a mandatory upgrade which means the 2.1.X branch will not be continued. Bloggers, you might want to upgrade your WordPress blog as soon as you can because this version consists of 244 bugs fixed.

New features including:

1. WordPress Widgets
   Drag and drop your sidebar items, as simple as that. It was available as a plugin, now being included in the core code.
2. Full Atom support
   Now besides RSS, you have another way to serve your blog feeds.
3. new Blogger importer
   Google Blogger full import. If you have a blogger.com account, and would like to switch to WordPress, you can keep all your posts and comments without any hassle.
4. Infinite comment stream
   This might sounds complicated. Actually it is just an AJAX feature that lets you moderate your blog’s comments with simpler way, as in you will always have 20 Items on the same page after you make some deletes.

For more features listing, please check out WordPress Release Page. Also, while we all enjoy using WordPress so much, see what the contributing author Matthew Mullenweg has to say in his blog.

1. Bloglines, Google Reader or some other RSS reader is constantly open on your computer’s desktop.
2. You tell customers that you missed a project deadline because “some things” came up but in reality, you were blogging.
3. You periodically dream that you are blogging.
4. You get inspiration for new blog posts at the strangest times – in the Jacuzzi, sitting on the toilet, during marital activities (cough, cough)… you get the picture.
5. Before blogs, you used to tuck the kids into bed at night. Now you check for unapproved blog comments before heading to bed yourself.
6. In order for your family to keep up with what’s going on in your life, they have to read your blog. Furthermore, if they want to communicate with you, they have to comment on your blog.
7. You have actually considered setting up a blog for your pet of which you would post the entries pretending you are your pet (weirdo).
8. You can’t remember dates for your wedding anniversary, kids birthdays, etc., but you know what your Technorati rank is.
9. You blog about anything and everything including bad meals, your pets, getting your car stuck in snow, conversations you have in the bathroom, etc.
10. 10. Keeping a blog is no longer enough but you now have to record your every move on Twitter.

How many criteria have you met? Use this as a borderline perhaps, don’t go overboard with any online activity.

David Wallace at searchrank.com has a post about “10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict“. Very funny, but it more or less tells you the behaviors of active bloggers. Here I will list down the 10 signs.

1. Bloglines, Google Reader or some other RSS reader is constantly open on your computer’s desktop.
2. You tell customers that you missed a project deadline because “some things” came up but in reality, you were blogging.
3. You periodically dream that you are blogging.
4. You get inspiration for new blog posts at the strangest times – in the Jacuzzi, sitting on the toilet, during marital activities (cough, cough)… you get the picture.
5. Before blogs, you used to tuck the kids into bed at night. Now you check for unapproved blog comments before heading to bed yourself.
6. In order for your family to keep up with what’s going on in your life, they have to read your blog. Furthermore, if they want to communicate with you, they have to comment on your blog.
7. You have actually considered setting up a blog for your pet of which you would post the entries pretending you are your pet (weirdo).
8. You can’t remember dates for your wedding anniversary, kids birthdays, etc., but you know what your Technorati rank is.
9. You blog about anything and everything including bad meals, your pets, getting your car stuck in snow, conversations you have in the bathroom, etc.
10. 10. Keeping a blog is no longer enough but you now have to record your every move on Twitter.

How many criteria have you met? Use this as a borderline perhaps, don’t go overboard with any online activity.

The problem is that ever since I’ve implemented the “more” tag for better front page sorting, my RSS feed is not able to serve in full text anymore. It inherits the “more” link in the feed, in where you set to trim the post. I’ve been looking for solution for this problem, and I’ve found one.

This is a WordPress plugin brought to you by Computer Guru. CompleteRSS is a plugin that allows you to serve your RSS feed in full HTML. Download page is here.

After activating the plugin, my RSS feed now looks like this.

Full HTML served in RSS Feed.

I’ve noticed a few things here.

1. Your bandwidth usage will increase when the feed is loaded everytime in RSS feed reader.
2. Adsense advertisement block will not display in the HTML RSS Feed.

Well, this is the price I’m willing to pay in order to improve my readership. How about you?

Subscribe to my RSS to get more useful information.

I used to serve my RSS feed in full text. In this way I personally think the readers will enjoy the information easier, without visiting the actual site for the full content. This is what RSS feed, and any other technology meant to be, to simplify things, to save time.

The problem is that ever since I’ve implemented the “more” tag for better front page sorting, my RSS feed is not able to serve in full text anymore. It inherits the “more” link in the feed, in where you set to trim the post. I’ve been looking for solution for this problem, and I’ve found one.

This is a WordPress plugin brought to you by Computer Guru. CompleteRSS is a plugin that allows you to serve your RSS feed in full HTML. Download page is here.

After activating the plugin, my RSS feed now looks like this.

Full HTML served in RSS Feed.

I’ve noticed a few things here.

1. Your bandwidth usage will increase when the feed is loaded everytime in RSS feed reader.
2. Adsense advertisement block will not display in the HTML RSS Feed.

Well, this is the price I’m willing to pay in order to improve my readership. How about you?

Subscribe to my RSS to get more useful information.