Archive for February, 2007

28 Feb

Trialling PopStats now

I am trialling a very easy to install stats plugin for WordPress called PopStats. Yes, the site is in Spanish – don’t let that stop you … the plugin installs just by uploading to your plugins folder on the webserver and can be easily modified to run in English.
Perhaps when there are stats to see [...]

28 Feb

Updated to WordPress 2.1.1 and nice permalinks

Just completed the update to WordPress version 2.1.1 which was great practice.
Also managed to edit my .htaccess file – which seemed quite hard at first!
Here in H-Sphere land we don’t allow direct shell access to accounts, which on the whole saves a great deal of grief. Occasionally we need to think outside the WebShell box, [...]

27 Feb

Control Panel Update

The control panel was unavailable for some hours on the 25th due to a complete database rebuild that took unexpectedly long. Investigations are proceeding to ensure that all possible steps to mitigate such issues in future will be considered.

27 Feb

Wordpress plugins galore

Wow – there are certainly a lot of Wordpress plugins out there … here are a few that really jumped out for me in my latest searches!

Yahoo Sidebar Link Badge Widget
Newsletter Plugin this is a commercial plugin that allows you to create and manage an web-based newsletter and mailing list within the WordPress environment.
Ultimate Tag [...]

27 Feb

So, how’s it been going then?

That’s a great question! I must say that I have been pretty happy with our new servers – downtime has been minimal, communication has been good and performance has left nothing to be desired.
As far as hosting goes, I have a couple of subdomains being used by my first client. She has been extremely happy [...]