WordPress 3.0 Beta 1

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WordPress 3.0, Beta 1 has been released and I will be installing it on PWPH later tonight for a real world test run. If you are game enough give it a whirl, I would recommend doing a database and file backup before giving it a try… After all you wouldn’t want to make a mess of your site if something goes wrong. [...]

10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

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Here is a list of ten excellent Mozilla Firefox add-ons that would come in handy for web developers. [...]

WordPress 2.9.2 Released – Security Fix

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Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. [...]

Banner Poll Closed

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Well the results are in after having the banner poll running for 24 hours. Banner option number one came out a head. [...]

New banner poll

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Our good friend Michael Pollock at Solostream Themes put together two great banner designs for our site. Below are the two banner designs in mention and we would like our readers to pick the banner design that will adorn the top of our website. [...]

Keep Domain Registration & Hosting Separate

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It is never a good idea to have all your eggs placed in the one basket. The same goes for setting up domain registrations and webhosting accounts. [...]

Upcoming Maintenance Notice

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This quick news update is to inform all our hosting customers about some upcoming scheduled maintenance. We have installed a new kernel on our node to fix some security and memory issues. [...]

WordPress 2.9.1 Released

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Three weeks after the release of the much anticipated WordPress 2.9 we are now graced with another update. WordPress 2.9.1 fixes a handful of issues where scheduled posts and pingbacks were not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. [...]

Closed over Christmas

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Premium WordPress Hosting will be closed over the Christmas break beginning Thursday 24 December 2009. We will re-open and start doing support requests on Sunday 27 December 2009. [...]

WordPress 2.9 Released

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The long awaited WordPress 2.9 has finally been released upon the masses. This release is called “Carmen” and is named in honor of jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

Version 2.9 includes a number of new features including a basic image editing tool, trash bin and simpler video embeds. [...]

Downtime and server issues today…

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You may have noticed that one of our servers was down for quite a few hours earlier today. The reason behind it was due to hardware failure. All the hardware has now been replaced with new hardware and everything seems to be back to normal and is running stable. [...]

WordPress 2.8.6 Available – Security Fixes

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The Wordpress developers have just released a security update for their very popular blogging platform. The following announcement was made on the WordPress.org blog: [...]