You may have noticed a few cosmetic changes to this blog since yesterday. That’s because I upgraded from 2.0 to 2.3. The makers of WordPress raved about a “kick ass taxonomy” system, which I’ll need to explore when I have more time. For now, I knew this blog was way overdue for an upgrade. So [...] Read more »
Creating a Website with WordPress
One of my top goals when I returned from my vacation was to crack open this book and take a shot at building my first WordPress theme. I tried to follow the author’s step-by-step instructions but got totally confused and frustrated. This section is not for the complete WordPress novice, especially if they don’t know [...] Read more »
Two New Must-Have WordPress Books
Lorelle VanFossen has written a concise how-to book, covering every aspect of WordPress and how you can use it to create and build an outstanding blog. I read a third of this book before I began jumping to the sections that I needed to learn about or brush up on. Some tips I found useful [...] Read more »
WordPress 2.1 has Launched
Aaron Brazell has written a great post called 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1, which explains the bells and whistles of the latest release of WordPress. I think everyone should read this article, along with Lorelle’s Fear Not WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Plugins before they upgrade. I’m glad to see that they’ve made [...] Read more »
WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection
Over the past several weeks, my “contact me “form has been attacked by spammers. As I was writing yesterday, my email notifier kept bonging at me whenever these bots would send me their crap. I finally got sick of it and looked on the WordPress Plugin site, where I found the plugin below. It requires [...] Read more »
WordPress 2.1 on the Horizon
I’m not sure when this latest version is coming out or what features it’s going to bring, but the new 2.05 version has just been released, which contains more security patches. I just updated this blog and The Writers Buzz due to my newfound paranoia of hackers (i.e., the demise of the Murder and Mayhem [...] Read more »
WordPress 2 Book Released
I ordered this book in mid-May and just now received it. If you are new to WordPress or are thinking about migrating from Blogger to WordPress, get this book. It will help you learn the basics, from how to set up and customize your site to adding podcasts and webcams to your blog. As an [...] Read more »
Skinning WBA
I finally found a WordPress theme that works in Firefox and Internet Exploder for the Mac and PC. Even better, it’s writing-related. Woo-hoo! The headlines are a bit funky looking on IE–not surprising since that browser sucks. But I’ll get to that tomorrow. Gotta write. Oh, before I close, check out the latest contest on [...] Read more »
Google Analytics Plugin
This plugin is loaded with all kinds of features that can give you the stats on your blog in at least twenty different ways. As good as this plugin is, it isn’t without its problems. First of all, it took about a week for the plugin to kick in and start culling the data on [...] Read more »
Working Out Some Bugs in the System
Melly was kind enough to tell me that she is having problems viewing my feed in her RSS reader. While the Feedburner link appears to be working okay, the WordPress link isn’t. I’m getting this External Protocol Request whenever I click on the WP RSS link. I’ve experienced this with other blogs when I tried [...] Read more »