It’s not a hard folder name to type – but I wish it didn’t contain a dash and was slightly shorter. So I went and renamed my ‘wp-admin’ folder to ‘admin’.

Here is a tip: don’t do it because it doesn’t work. You get an error up that complains about the admin.php file and on inspection there are ‘LOTS’ of hard encoded links to the wp-admin folder. Too many to make it viable to change by hand – especially as a WordPress update could put it all back to how it was.

So basically as it stands with WordPress at the moment (version 2.6.2) – you can’t change the name of that folder, so I’m just going to have to continue being fed up.

So how do you count your words? As I’ve said many times before don’t use Word to type your blog posts, so that means using Word’s count facility is out of the question. So what should you do?

Well when you are next writing a post on your blog, glance to the right just under the SAVE and PUBLISH buttons is a handy little word count gem built straight into the core of WordPress. Keep typing and watch the little counter increment every few seconds.

WordPress now has a delete feature but to be able to delete the plugin you have to first deactivate it. This is the correct procedure, deactivate then delete, don’t be tempted to FTP into your plugins folder and just delete an active plugin. It might leave a load of settings behind that can cause the site to become unstable.

When you create a post WordPress saves the author details for you, some themes will display this on the blog posting. If you are logged in as the default user (admin) your post says something like: This post was written by: admin

Well that’s not great is it? However you have a way of sorting this out, here is how:

1. Login to wp-admin
2. Navigate to Users –> Your Profile
3. Scroll down to the ‘Display name publicly as’ option and look in the pop up menu

So long as you have filled in First name, Last name, Nickname (in the same panel) you will see different permutations of your name which can be used for display.