In a normal software release cycle we have a development, staging and production environment where we: Develop and test software on the development. Stage the code on Staging environment for QA and clients to test. And then move it to actual live production environment for the end users. In a similar way, when you are [...]

The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.6.3 which fixes a vulnerability found in Snoopy, a popular library to communicate with http and https protocols from PHP. The vulnerability is low risk, however it is better to upgrade to the latest version. However the upgrade includes changes to only two files, which you can easily download [...]

If you run WordPress on your local PC, chances are that you may not be testing it using custom permalinks, you may have on your actual website, the reason being that your default Apache configuration may give you 404 errors when you try to use custom permalinks. This is because, a Apache installation on windows [...]

Over the past few days we were facing a issue with the future posts feature in WordPress, while the future posts correctly showed a timer to the scheduled time, once it reached the scheduled it started in reverse direction and the timer went from 1 minute to 2 minutes and so on. To top that, [...]

Well it’s been a really long weekend and I had quite a break and relaxation for past 4 days. Posting for last 3-4 days has been quite low, but now it’s back to work and blogging. Oh and I also released a plugin over the weekend don’t forget to check out the awesome Better Tags [...]

WordPress 2.5 has been released officially today at the Dallas WordCamp after months and months of delays and version skips. This blog has been updated to the latest version using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Have you updated yet? Do let me know your feedback on what you think about WordPress 2.5. A note for WPAU [...]

If you have been waiting anxiously for the WordPress team to release the latest version of the blogging platform you may have been disappointed a tad bit. But that was all in the past. The WordPress team have released a Release Candidate (RC1) version of the tagged WordPress 2.5. The release candidate is most likely [...]

There is not much I have written much in the new year but as many of you know I was busy in creating a plugin. So the first post of the year from me is a plugin release. Let’s see the main reason why I created this plugin before I can tell you more about [...]

I would like to thank Keith for this awesome opportunity to meet some new folks and engage in a conversation at one of my favorite blogs! I write about Technology & cool finds in the Internet at ShanKri-la. I just recently helped a friend move from WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted blog. As I was [...]

First of all wanted to say that I have been sick most of last week and haven’t been able to put in much effort into the blog, but as I am getting better now I will be posting regularly. RSS Feeds are one of the best innovations where people can read content at their own [...]

WordPress Automatic Upgrade has two bugs which is irritating me because I cannot create a system where these bugs occur I have fixed most of the bugs and WPAU plugin is compatible with 90% of the blogs. The 10% that are not compatible is causing me to lose sleep. I know that some of you [...]

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released today and Techie Buzz has been updated using the handy plugin WordPress Automatic Upgrade. There were some bugs I found while updating from WordPress 2.3 to 2.3.1 due to database table name changes which has been fixed. I have released a new version 0.8 which should fix this error. WPAU [...]

I recently implemented a Google Custom search on this blog by following some good advice from Maki on how to set up Google custom search. The steps included creating a new page and adding the Google Custom search code to it, all went fine with the setup, but I came across a problem where I [...]

I am releasing a new version of WPAU because lots of people who have their blog setup in a separate directory other than their blog URL cannot update their blog using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. The new version 0.7 contains a bug fix for only the blogs who cannot upgrade because of the above [...]

Today is a great day for blogger’s who have been using the WordPress platform, WordPress 2.3 has finally shown its face to the world and with that lots of exciting new features including tagging, automatic notifications for plugins and much more. Matt has proudly announce the release today so head there and check out the [...]