Category: Wordpress

What is this outdated notification? The quick answer is that it is a warning text shown somewhere on the web page that says the article was written on – insert old date here – and the information in the content may be out of date. This may be kind of redundant when your article has…

I had this custom page on my WordPress site where I would show only posts from a specific category. This was done manually, as in I PHP-coded a function into one of the theme’s PHP files to accept a shortcode, so it would do what I wanted it to. There is a big chance that…

These are the things that I did to upgrade my AWS EC2 server. Not exactly the instance but the software that is running on it. I am jotting this down since I might have a use for it some time later. Perhaps somebody in a similar situation as I am will find it useful too.…

Yeah, whut?! I have noticed this for a while ever since I setup this site a few weeks ago. While I uploaded everything by hand through good old `scp` at first, it really didn’t occur to me then that there was something weird going on. I didn’t bother with it so much then. All that…

Prettifying a URL is an old technique.  It is generally called URL Rewriting.  Why should you do this?  For one, it’s better to look at it.  A URL that has “?s=1&sid=4752891&gn=0&.rand=99olqituu202iqzx37a6” after the domain name, can be quite confusing and unpleasant to look at for those who don’t understand it.  Secondly, re-written URLs are more…

For new WordPress users trying to set up a website and using the former as a CMS, this is usually among the first questions asked.  This is really easy.  In fact the WordPress Codex has it all written down step by step here. Then usually, the next question after having done the steps is, “I…