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You will find  many articles on WordPress, Dokuwiki and other content management systems on this blog. It also contain good web design tips.  This post consolidates all the articles related to content management systems, web designing, and web hosting in one place. Check them out !

In an earlier post, I had explained the steps I took to clean up my hacked WordPress blog and get it back online in the shortest possible time. To successfully ward off a hacking attack on your WordPress site, you need to take a few more precautions.

Today when I visited this site, I got the shock of my life. Instead of my blog posts, what I saw was a static web page which stated that this site has been hacked. I immediately contacted my web hosting provider Bluehost.com and notified them of the same. Thankfully, Bluehost support staff were very quick [...]

Today while I was upgrading my WordPress installation to version 2.9.1, the upgrade script exited prematurely showing a fatal error as follows : Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2516315 bytes) in wp-includes/http.php on line 1370 There is an easy fix for this fatal error. The WordPress fix is [...]

WordPress has a well designed rich text editor for formating your posts. Did you know that you can also use keyboard shortcuts in the WordPress editor ? Yes you can!

Syntax Highlighting is a method of color coding the code syntax to make it more legible to the reader. For this you embed pieces of code into your website / blog where ever you need to highlight any code in your articles, and the syntax highlighter does the job.