HTTP Blog

Three years ago I was very skeptic about blogs. I didn’t enjoy reading blog posts, I usually went to other sites if I spot a blog. After some time, I don’t even remember when, but I published my first blog and from the very first day I started to like blog sites. Particularly, Wordpress based blogs.

Nowadays, I suggest using Wordpress platform for new blogs to my friends and other guys I know. Very stable, easy to set-up platform and very important – actively developed with thousands of pretty cool plugins. It’s free – pretty cool, eh?

I manage quite a few popular blogs for my friends and if the server(s) are correctly tuned, have medium resources, then Wordpress platform can easily serve hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. As long as you use plugins that are coded with performance in mind you should have no problems.  Use Wordpress – it’s a nice publishing tool for your next blog.

If you are looking for a great way to encourage more people to leave comments, on your blog, there is a relatively new Wordpress plug-in that will do just that. The idea behind it is actually quite ingenious.

Comments are very important to the popularity of any blog, regardless of the niche. Without visitor interaction your blog is destined to remain ‘the new kid on the block’. Unfortunately, that is almost a fate worse than death.

Wordpress Magnet encourages visitors to leave interesting comments, relative to the subject matter, by offering something in return. This ‘something’ is whatever you decide on. It can be a free eBook, report or newsletter. It might even be a discount on your product or service. It’s really up to you.

This plug-in can be used on all of your Wordpress blogs and is very easy to install and set up. There is a small charge for it, but it is WELL WORTH the investment.

In the event you are dissatisfied with the results, Wordpress Magnet comes with a 60 day money back guarantee. (No questions asked!)

Since almost everyone loves to get something for free, this is truly a unique idea. What have you got to lose? Consider the use of Wordpress Magnet, today!

If you prefer to change Wordpress admin or any user password from the shell it can be easily done by mysql command line.

Connect to the database with dedicated user or with root

mysql -u root -p wordpressdb

enter password and

update wp_users set user_pass=md5(‘newpwd’) where user_login=’admin’;

The above line will change admin user password to newpwd

You can easily script and change wordpress user passwords via perl DBI module.

If you are getting an error message after you have upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 this is the fix that will solve the problem.


Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in ...

Current memory_limit value was set to 8M

memory_limit = 8M

You should change it to:

memory_limit = 16M

Enjoy!