Backing up with HP Simple Save
17 November, 2009 – 6:05 pm | No Comment

Never have a hard drive failure? You’re lucky. But when that time comes (most probably it will), you’d better be ready or you’ll find that money can’t buy everything the hard way (definitely can’t buy …

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Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #3 – Reduce your database queries
11 June, 2009 – 2:11 am | 12 Comments
Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #3 – Reduce your database queries

This is my 3rd post on the post series: how to reduce WordPress CPU usage. Read the complete series on my Blogging Guide series page.
A high CPU usage can be caused by the number of …

Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #2: Uninstalling a WordPress plug-in completely
28 May, 2009 – 11:35 pm | 16 Comments
Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #2: Uninstalling a WordPress plug-in completely

Today, we are going to talk about how to clean up WordPress plug-in left overs / uninstall a WordPress plug-in completely.
Do you know that deactivating and removing a plug-in doesn’t necessarily mean removing its table …

Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #1 – General tips
22 May, 2009 – 8:28 pm | 22 Comments
Reduce WordPress CPU Usage #1 – General tips

I’ve been trying to optimize this WordPress blog because of the high CPU usage reported by my web hosting. I’ll post a few tips that I do personally on this blog and hopefully if you …

The WordPress’ White Screen of Death
19 May, 2009 – 9:40 pm | 8 Comments
The WordPress’ White Screen of Death

I was trying to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 earlier. Everything went well until the step of upgrading the database was completed: the famous WordPress’ white screen of death. It happened when …

WP Greet Box – Utilize your blog’s traffic
21 April, 2009 – 12:16 pm | 7 Comments
WP Greet Box – Utilize your blog’s traffic

I’ve been using a Wordpress plug-in called WP Greet Box for a while now. WP Greet Box basically detects the visitors of your blog (where they are coming from) and display a custom message to …

How to uninstall Global Translator Plug-in properly
15 April, 2009 – 1:04 pm | 15 Comments
How to uninstall Global Translator Plug-in properly

On my previous post, I explained on why I uninstalled the Global Translator plug-in from this blog. Here is a step by step process that you should take if you want to uninstall the plug-in …

Global Translator Plug-in review – To install or not to install?
6 April, 2009 – 6:30 pm | 16 Comments
Global Translator Plug-in review – To install or not to install?

Here is a plug-in for WordPress that is going to add more international visitors’ numbers to your traffic statistics. Please note that I’ve tried this plug-in for a month but decided to remove it …

Have you verified your trackbacks and pingbacks?
26 March, 2009 – 8:54 pm | 11 Comments
Have you verified your trackbacks and pingbacks?

If you own a blog, you’ll probably want other bloggers to spread and link back to your post. This is where trackbacks and pingbacks come into play. If you want to find out more …

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