Whether your WordPress upgrade failed or due to divine intervention, you may load your WordPress powered website to find a simple message on a white background that reads something like this: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a …
HeatMap-like Tracking Of Clicks With Google Analytics
Sites like CrazyEgg and Reinvigorate provide functionality allowing webmasters to track clicks on their sites – and display those click in a “heatmap” format – with each click represented by a red (heat) dot on an image of the website. …
Twitter For WordPress – How To Post From WordPress To Twitter
All the posts written here on DNXpert.com automatically get tweeted to the DNXpert Twitter profile where our tweets are followed by some 533 followers. We have some 1086 tweets and we actually get significant traffic to DNXpert.com from Twitter. A …
Debugging WordPress With Log Files
Whether you are writing a WordPress plugin, writing a custom WordPress function or simply need to debug an existing functionality, it can be quite difficult to piece together when something goes wrong in WordPress. This is especially true when things …
10 Cool Sites Built On WordPress
I am a big fan of WordPress both as a blogging platform and a cms for general websites – as any regular reader of dnxpert.com will know by now, based on the number of posts I have written about the …
Broken Permalinks After WordPress 3.1 Upgrade
Some people are reporting broken permalinks after the big upgrade to WordPress 3.1 – I can confirm I am one of “those people”. From what I can see it appears to be an incompatibility with plugins that are playing around …
WordPress Wins CMS Award
One of the worst kept secrets in website making is that WordPress is a heck of a CMS. It simply is not just blogging software! In recognition of that fact, and in head to head voting against Joomla and Drupal, …
Markup.io – One of the coolest tools ever
Wow. I was browsing through some design sites for inspiration – http://www.thebestdesigns.com to be exact – and clicked on a website labeled markup.io. It took me a few seconds to work out what it does and I can tell you, …
WordPress.com Stats Broken
I am running WordPress.com stats plugin on this and many other sites and today logged in to a slightly nasty surprise. WordPress.com stats is broken – and doesn’t let me use my dashboard properly. WordPress.com stats appears as a widget …
HyperDB And Strange Characters
A website I administer loads data from two wordpress databases – a method I recently blogged about – and it ran fine under WordPress 2.9.2. However, having updated the core to WordPress 3.0.1 I suddenly faced a problem where certain …
