Why you should not increase the number of articles on your homepage
This is a long title for an article, my apologies for that but I was not able to squeeze it into fewer words. Wordpress lets the administrator select the amount of preview articles that appear on the homepage and on every other page. The default value is ten which means that every page (blogurl/page/number) will contain that amount of articles specified.
Google and other Search Engines index those pages and users can find them when searching for keywords. Now, if you increase the amount of articles shown on one page one side effect can hurt your status in Google. Lets say you have 100 articles and a default value of 10 articles per page.
You have decided to raise that amount to 20 articles per page. This means that the last five pages that have been indexed by Google and other Search Engines are not existing anymore. blogurl/page/6 leads to a 404 not found error as do all other pages after that.
Wordpress more tag and full feeds
If you use the more tag in your articles in Wordpress to cut off the article you might have noticed that the feeds get cut off at the same position even though you selected to provide full feeds of your articles. There is no obvious way to change this behavior and it took some time until I found the solution to this problem.
You will have to edit the file post-template.php in wp-includes. Open the file and search for the following string
if ( preg_match('/ (.+?)?
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 now
Only seven days after the release of Wordpress 2.0.7 Wordpress 2.1 has been released. It contains some major changes, security fixes and performance improvements and should be installed immediately if you are running a Wordpress blog. It is always sad to see when a Wordpress blog gets defaced because the site owner did not update to the latest version immediately after it was released.
You can download the latest version of Wordpress from the official website. Upgrading to 2.1 is very easy. It is recommended to backup all the files and the database and disable all plugins before you upload the new files and run the upgrade.php file.