PHP is a very useful and flexible computer language – proof of this is that WordPress itself is written in PHP.

In fact, it’s so useful that sometimes we just want a ‘little extra’ bit of code right in the middle of a WordPress blog post – but you can’t by default.

Enter runPHP, a plug-in that allows you to embed PHP and posts, and give your posts a little more dynamic power:

http://nosq.com/blog/2006/01/runphp-plugin-for-wordpress/

For quite some time, I’ve recommended using phpExec in your posts. However, I now feel runPHP …

As you may (or may not) have noticed, FeedBurner.com was bought by Google, and FeedBurner feeds are now part of the Google conglomeration. So if you use FeedBurner to manage your blog feeds (as ActiveBlogging does), then it’s important to transfer as soon as possible if you haven’t already.

While not a problem until now, you will find it harder to use your feeds, as they say on their site. So rather than login issues in the future (although they do promise to allow transferring ‘indefinitely’), it’s probably best to …

A little while ago I wanted to transfer a domain – oddly enough, I found guides on going from Namecheap to GoDaddy, but none in the other direction. So to save people some effort, here’s the steps I went through to get transfers from GoDaddy to Namecheap:

First, go to the Namecheap transfers page and enter the domain. Unless something is very odd, it will say the name can be transferred.

From there, go ahead and pay via Namecheap (currently, the coupon SWITCH2NC makes it a $6.99 transfer, including domain …

If you have a theme that displays a copyright (and you should), one annoying problem occurs every year – the copyright date needs to be updated.

Start your blog in 2008 for example, and it needs to be changed to 2007-2008, and now 2007-2009.

Of course, for a “dead” blog this isn’t a problem – but for those of us blogging regularly, the copyright DOES change, and increases each year.

So how can you make it automatic?

Find the part of your theme that displays the copyright year, usually footer.php. …

wELL, i DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT i HATE IT WHEN MY cAPS lOCK KEY ON MY KEYBOARD GETS STUCK TO ‘on’.

Frankly, I’ve lost my ability to touch type thanks to this byproduct of the computer era – so when a fellow asked about disabling it, I did a quick search.

If you use Open Office, there’s an option to set chars to lowercase, found in the ‘Format’ menu, ‘Change Case’ option. But that just sets it all one way or the other (note to Open Office Folks – …