1. I changed my Featured Topic link, but it didn’t change. Why?
A: You changed it in the Main Index Template, which isn’t used. Copy and paste the link into the home.php file.
2. It still hasn’t changed. Why?
A: The page is cached. Go to your WordPress control panel, click Options, WP-Cache, and then click the Delete [...]

I’m getting TrackBack spam that links back to my own blog. Where’s this coming from?
Is the spammer just too stupid to link to some other site?
Windows Vista News | intelliot.com/tech/2007/11/09/windows-vista-quick-hosts-file-switcher.html | IP: 8.12.34.75
Windows Vista: Quick Hosts File Switcher…
Did you see the post at www.intelliot.com…
Nov 9, 1:30 PM

I noticed that on my main blog, ads for pharmacies and drugs were appearing. This was weird, I thought, but I didn’t really look into it. Now I know why: this rogue code was being inserted to the site by wp_footer. I’m not sure where the “goro” style was being defined. Maybe I should’ve investigated [...]

My main blog is consistently taking more than a second to load the front page. That’s unacceptable, as anything over a second and I get annoyed. Let’s see if WP-Cache can help.
Nope, didn’t make any significant difference that Firebug can detect.
Without WP-Cache
3.28
2.25
2.38
Average: 2.64 seconds
With WP-Cache
2.66
2.65
2.52
2.91
2.89
2.10
Average: 2.62 seconds
At least it doesn’t seem to be worse. Though [...]

Today I was browsing through old related posts in my personal blog, when I noticed that it was showing question marks (?) instead of certain accented characters. I’ve seen this kind of problem before, and the culprit was the character encoding. I could force the browser to display the question marks properly, but I didn’t [...]

Here are three useful plugins:
Different Posts Per Page
I wrote a review of the Different Posts Per Page plugin. Read it here!
MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
BlogRush Click Maximizer
What do you think of these plugins?

I just installed the Related Posts plugin on my personal blog. For some reason, I think I tried to do this before, but it didn’t work for some reason. Well, I’m very, very glad I did, because it’s incredibly fascinating. It’s like my BrainLogger concept, but only with related posts. It gives me insight into [...]