Thesis 1.8 hits the market: See what’s new and buy now!

I won’t be surprised if a post about Thesis’ new version arrival in my blog surprises you as you know I’ve always said I didn’t like Thesis that much. But hey, I had a strong reason for that. Thesis looked like “for advanced geeks only” type of framework to me and that’s why I chose not to go with Thesis any more. However, the features included in Thesis 1.8, that just hit the market, is in a word amazing. I’m blown away with the features Thesis 1.8 comes with. So, you understand if you’re not yet using Thesis, I don’t feel any bad to advice to start using.

3 easy WordPress hacks to make your blog stand out

To really make your WordPress blog truly your own, we are going to cover some hacks that you can employ. While this may be a bit intimidating to novice blog administrators, those who step up to the challenge will find that hacking WordPress becomes easier each time you do it.

None of these hacks will simply tell you to install a plugin. Instead, we are going to keep the reliance on plugins to a minimum, reducing the need to consistently update them. Also, plugins require quite a bit more code than these hacks. While it may seem insignificant, reducing code bloat helps your blog’s performance. So instead of clicking the install button, you will need to get your hands dirty with the code.

2 Updates: Why I stopped Disqus and Added CommentLuv

Here’s why I was kind of forced to disable Disqus on my blog. When my inbox was flooded every morning with lots of spam comments being approved and spam comment notifications, I had no other way but to think for alternative. I believe the default theme section is the best alternative to choose. At the same time, as I think I should reward my readers and commentators more, I have enabled CommentLuv plugin. I hope you do know about it, don’t you?

WordPress precaution: PHP 5.2 will be the minimum requirement

In a recent blog post published on WordPress developer blog, the company has stated that WordPress will no longer support PHP 4 and MySQL 4 from its release 3.2, due in the first half of 2011. Mark Jaquith also notes that WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010 will be the final version to support minimum server configuration of PHP 4 and MySQL 4.

How to change the logo URL in WordPress login page

This is the 2nd part of the post “Easiest solution on how to change WordPress login logo“. In that article, I discussed how you can change the login logo of your WordPress login page without any plugin’s help. Today, in this post, I’ll show you the easiest way to change the URL of that logo on the login page, which by default is set to wordpress.org.

10 Ways To Clean Up & Streamline Your Blog

Don’t you hate it when you’re looking for some quick information and you visit a poorly laid out blog that leaves you waiting impatiently while its pages load or freeze up your computer due to the amount of stuff crammed onto its pages? So why do that to other people with your blog or blogs? Instead, you may want to consider streamlining your blog to make it more effective, more efficient, easier to navigate, and more popular among your visitors and followers.

Inside we have 10 surefire tips to clean up your blog and make it look neat, clean and smart.

8 Must Have plugins to speed up WordPress Blog

Recently, Google announced that they are putting higher priority to those websites/blogs which loads faster. Priority of what? Definitely, priority for showing up in Search Engine Result Page. After this announcement was made, webmasters and bloggers are impatient to make sure that their blogs load faster than others so that Google doesn’t punish it by putting it back. You too should rush for this. Here are 8 useful Wordpress plugins to speed up your WordPress blog and keep pace with the search monster, Google.