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Years ago when I first ventured into Open Source content management platforms like Joomla and Drupal, I came across the Rockettheme premium theme site.  Damn the designs were nice, and tailoring theme to suite your needs was just so easy.  An extremely helpful community made I was never happy with the Joomla platform as a [...]

If you have a WordPress blog and have been looking for a real integrated forum solution, look no further than WP United.  WP-United is an impressive integration package that glues together phpBB, the leading open source bulletin board, and WordPress, the popular blogging tool. The site I am currently testing it on: www.ozsource.org The phpbb3 [...]

A lot of the time when searching for a host you’ll most likely come across a “Top hosting provider” site like our very own HostSocial, which basically provides a full list of hosting providers within certain countries or regions. The site usually has a few features so you can filter what you’d like to choose [...]

Another WordPress upgrade issue.  This time the exact error message is as follows: Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.3.zip. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2357261 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1324 There are a couple ways to fix this issue, with the easiest is to edit wp-settings.php at line 13 [...]

The world of Open Source software has always interested me in great detail and people charging for themes and various plugins for gpl based content management systems has never bothered me at all.  But is it legal to do so? An interesting post has been made on the WordPress blog which doesn’t ask the question [...]

If you dabble in internet marketing and have a Commission Junction account, phpOstock will give your blog the ability to promote products from the incredibly popular online discount store Overstock.com with ease right in your wordpress blog. I have started making a site based around this plugin called Boxed Video which displays some of the [...]

I got this error in one of my WordPress installs: Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure. In this case it was due to using an installer such as Fantastic or Installatron to initially setup WordPress, a manual install over my current install fixed this.  There is Further research here on WordPress.org also. The [...]

WooThemes are probably one of the biggest premium theme makers available for the WordPress blogging platform with some of the slickest designs around.  No need for any coupon or promo code, the guys are offering 4 themes for one to celebrate the launch of WOO2 website redesign. We decided that we’d spoil all of the [...]

Google Australia is giving away their very own “Stimulus Offer”: $75 dollars in free search based Google advertising via the Google Adwords programme.  To take up this offer you have to be a new Adwords customer and then need to fill out the form here:  Google Adwords We’re giving Australian businesses the opportunity to get [...]

If you have tried the new auto updating in WordPress 2.7 and have been given this error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /Yourhome… Deactivate the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin WPAU as it is no longer needed.