WordPress Plugins

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

WordPress Plugins Plugins are one of the best features of WordPress. They allow you to extend the functionality of the default WordPress site to do thousands of different things.  All you have to do is put a couple files in the right place on your server using the built-in Plugin Installer ...

Upgrading my Swift Theme completely broke my site

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Over at Journey To a Better Man, we use the Swift theme.  So far we have absolutely loved it because it provides some great functionality that helped us to get a clean theme out of the box that has some great and easy customization tools. Everything was going great, until the ...

Upgrading Plugins

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Upgrading Plugins WordPress makes it extremely easy to upgrade plugins, all you have to do is go to the plugins page and click the "upgrade automatically" link for each plugin that needs to be upgraded. After you click the "upgrade automatically" link, WordPress will take you to the following page and show ...

Why does WordPress say I have to use FTP to upgrade a plugin?

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

This is a short post, enjoy. I have found that there are usually two reasons why you will see the FTP screen when trying to upgrade a WordPress plugin: The user level owner of your scripts is higher than the user level of PHP. Example: scripts are all set to be owned by ...