WordPress

How to choose the best WordPress Host

The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]

Why WordPress Updates Fail

WordPress is generally extremely reliable. Consider that there are tens of thousands of disparate people and groups working independently to create the hundreds of thousands of themes and Plugins for the core WordPress software. Even the core WordPress software itself uses code and script created by further groups (e.g. JavaScript, PHP and HTML). The number of possible combinations [...]

How to Publish with a Past Date

Most people using WordPress know how to publish a Blog Post with the current time and how to schedule a Post to be published in the future. But what if you want to have a publish date in the past, say, for example, if you are publishing articles from 25th December 1950? Fortunately this is [...]