Zenphoto – doing an update the right way, manually ..

After experimenting with various photo blog kind of interfaces (including the use of Gallery2 and other plugins that work along with WordPress), I finally found something that I liked – namely, Zenphoto, that I have started to use to build a photo site called Tourist Photos (photos from different tourist locations) (primarily to find an [...]

Upgrade your WordPress blog frequently to keep it more secure

There are a large number of people who want to start blogging, don’t like using a shared platform such as Blogger, and install a WordPress blog on a shared hosting service. And once installed, they start adding new content, generating more user visits. However, a huge percentage of these people do not upgrade to the [...]

Using a plugin to upgrade WordPress automatically

The previous post talked about doing an upgrade of WordPress through a number of steps. I can just hear the moans and groans; this is complicated, can take effort. A lot of people would claim that this is complicated, and would prefer a single solution, if possible, a one click solution. On the other hand, [...]

Upgrading your WordPress installation manually

This topic is not for people who have blogs on WordPress.com; blogs over there are always on an updated version of the WordPress platform. This is for people who have WordPress Blogs hosted on a server elsewhere. When logging into the Admin mode of your WordPress Blog, you get a Dashboard that displays the version [...]