My summary of WordCamp Cape Town 2011. This post includes a video of my presentation, titled: Harnessing the full power of WordPress for multimedia publishing.

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. There have been dozens of such events around the globe in the past, and there will be WordCamps for as long as WordPress continues to exist in its current shape and form.

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post in the Effective Blogging series, I made a case for why every blogger should have a mobile-friendly version of their blog. In this post, I would be highlighting how to make your blog [...]

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. I recently got a message from Regina, a reader of this blog in Kenya. She asked: Tell me, how does one start a blog? I can see you have a very nice blog and I was wondering [...]

If you are an African blogger and have your blog listed on Afrigator, chances are that you know about Gatorpeeps but can’t seem to understand what it is nor how to use it. Thus, the social networking website is grossly under-utilized by its users with the exception of a few who dominate the platform. This [...]

Any regular reader of this blog would have noticed the very rapid changes in the look of this blog in the past few days. It might give some the impression of an inconsistent Oluniyi David Ajao. I am truly sorry about that. You see, I have this insatiable craving for excellence in every thing I [...]

I just upgraded the software running my blog to the latest which is WordPress 2.7 The new Dashboard is breath-taking and new features have been added too. QuickPress, a new feature, allows you to quickly post from your Dashboard. Matter-of-fact, I am posting from QuickPress right now. This is the biggest leap from WordPress. There [...]

Upgrade of WordPress installation from 2.3.3 to 2.5

Do you run a blog powered by WordPress software? Well, it might interest you to learn that WordPress.org has now released a plugin that works with WordPress-powered blogs that are not hosted on WordPress.com I downloaded and installed the plugin just yesterday and it worked smoothly for me. One downside though is that it doesn’t [...]

WordPress. Security update. All the time. Reminds one of Microsoft. Well, the latest security update is WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10, depending on which version you are using. WordPress.org says, We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again. Let’s [...]

I intend to look closely at paying to hosting one’s blog as compared to using free blogs.

I came to know about blogging when I was researching about Content Management System (CMS), for a client who wanted it. I’m a web developer, by the way. At the time (early 2004) I needed the best CMS solution that was easy to implement and run. Blogging did not appear to fit my client’s requirement so I simply noted it in my memory bank, to return to it much later. Read on…