Someone just emailed a very valid question. It seems they were wanting to trim back their WordPress database to only the virgin install state and wanted to make sure they backed up only the data tables they needed to accomplish this. There could be arguments that not all of the virgin install data tables need to be restored but the question, verbatim, was, “how...

How do you block spam comments in WordPress? First let me remind and inform there are two WordPress methods. First there is WordPress.com where you create a “free” website using WordPress and it is hosted on the Automattic servers. You own nothing and control only part. Then there is WordPress.org which you either download and install on your server or if...

It is not uncommon for vulnerabilities to turn up in new releases of software and applications as well as web code. WordPress is a large collection of code files and as such is as vulnerable as anything else to exploits. It is owed to the global network of developers who use WordPress that vulnerabilities are quickly discovered and cured. For this reason there is no...

[podcast]http://thekencook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/warning-seo-plugins.mp3[/podcast] Play the audio introduction Actually your SEO is probably already suffering with an out of the box install of WordPress (your self hosted version) but what usually happens is a user installs an SEO plugin and either they simply do not use it (thinking it will somehow magically...

Here’s a WordPress plugin many people can use. The situation is that I had separate Facebook, Twitter and Google+ buttons scattered at the top of my posts. While I wanted them at the top I would prefer for them to all be aligned in a single row. I searched a bit in the WordPress plugins directory for Facebook Like, Twitter tweet and Google Plus 1 but was...