After three weeks the release of Wordpress 2.9, the patch version Wordpress 2.9.1 has come out to fix 24 bugs found in Wordpress 2.9.
As some of you may already notice, one of the bugs has affected the scheduled post feature where by the scheduling posts were not working and this was really annoying.
Like for myself, I use this feature almost of the time. But when this bug came in, I had to post my articles manually during recent New Year’s Eve even though at that time I want to hang-out with my friends.
If you are using Wordpress, I really recommend you to upgrade your WordPress to version 2.9.1 either by downloading it from Wordpress download page, or automatically upgrade from the notification link on your Admin Dashboard.
A new version of WordPress 2.9 has been released. The codename for the release is “Carmen” in honour of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can either upgrade directly from your Dashboard or download it from WordPress website.
What’s new? Yes, of course that is what you want to know right? Well, there is a Trash where we can restore back deleted comments or posts. Probably if you accidentally deleted a comment, you can restore it back by using Trash.
Another interesting new feature is the Image Editor. Although I surely will not use it much but now you can crop, edit, rotate, flip and scale the images directly from the web.
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Today, I found out that my sitemap.xml file got problem. It showed me this error message when I tried to view it.
Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype
http://www.cypherhackz.net/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl
I think the problem come from the recently Google Sitemap Generator plugin upgrade.
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Phew! In about 10 minutes, I have successfully upgraded all my 7 blogs to the latest Wordpress version 2.7 , codename Coltrane.
It will be very crazy if I use FTP to upload the files one by one because there are many files need to be uploaded to the server. Especially when I have many blogs need to be updated. So I used SSH access to extract the Wordpress .ZIP file and copy all the latest version files from one temporary folder to my blog folders. It is a lot easier and save a lot of time.
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Informations should be free! I love freebies and I know many of you are also like something that is free. Especially girls… (Want to say something, girls?) 
Well today, I want to talk about free Wordpress SEO tips. Every bloggers who want to get huge traffics from search engines must know how to optimize their website to be search engines friendly. By doing so, your website will get rank better in the search engine results and you will get more traffics to your website.
Guys, I don’t want to say too much and don’t want to take your time to read my boring words. Lets get straight to the point. Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling have taken their time to write an ebook which covers about Wordpress SEO. I recommend you to get a free copy of this ebook now and implement the tips to your Wordpress blog.
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I am busy lately and really don’t have time to pay attention to my Wordpress plugin development. Recently I received many emails and complaints about the problem with my Site Statistics plugin. The plugin does not count the category correctly. It is because Wordpress is using new table structure which is it combines category and tag in the same table.
And thanks to Fabian Terh for the fix. New version has been released today. Site Statistics v1.7 is the latest version which is compatible with Wordpress v2.3 and above. If you found any problems about the plugin, feel free to contact me.
I found this effect at Neo’s blog. I don’t think it is suitable to use on my website so I use it on my personal website instead. You can see the demo at my personal blog or just visit Neo’s blog.
To setup this effect is not difficult. It only involves CSS and a shadow image. First what you need to do is download this shadow image and upload it to your theme image folder. Like in my case, I uploaded it into /images.
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My website was once hacked by a hacker from Saudi Arabia. He managed to get into the server and replaced the index.php file with his own index file. I don’t know how he can get into my server but I have learnt many things from that bad experience.
Always upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version – It is really recommended to upgrade your Wordpress to the latest version. It is because each new version contains bug fixes and patches to vulnerabilities that exist in the older version. So make sure that you upgrade your Wordpress when the latest version is out.
Files and folders permission – In Wordpress, we need to set permission to certain files or folders to make it works properly. Especially when using plugins that need special CHMOD 777 permission. When you doing this, make sure that you give permission to the correct files and folders only. We don’t want other peoples can upload and run script through our server, right?
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Yes, if you are looking to get free $1000 (around RM3400), this is the only chance you are waiting for. But first, you must be an expert (not really) in designing and coding Wordpress themes because to get the $1000 cash you must design your own coolest, prettiest Wordpress theme ever.
This contest is hold by Lunarpages. Anybody can participate but with a few exceptions. You can submit your theme here and let see if you can win either one of the 3 prizes from Lunarpages.
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
So, what you are waiting for? Grab your photoshop, slice your design and make it into a real Wordpress theme. Hope will see your theme on the winner list. Good luck! 
For more info you can get at Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Design Contest page.
Just to let you know that I have upgraded my Site Statistics plugin to version 1.6. This new version contains the fix for the Wordpress 2.3 categories issue.
Wordpress has changed the way it handles the database. The categories table has been changed to terms table. That is why plugins that point to categories table will get an error saying that the categories table is not exist.
Just in case for those who don’t want to download Site Statistics v1.6, you can fix it by yourself by open the plugin file with your favourite text editor. Then, find and replace “categories” to “terms” and upload the edited plugin file to your plugins folder.
Btw, I will not support Wordpress version 2.2 and below from now on. In fact, there is no problem if you are using Site Statistics v1.5 on your Wordpress 2.2 and Wordpress 2.1. Site Statistics v1.6 is only for Wordpress 2.3 onwards. If you have any problems regarding this plugin, feel free to send me email or leave them in the comment form below.
Download: cypher_site-statistics.zip (version 1.6)
