Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true.
As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as [...]
By Rachelle Chase
Last week, I used my Sex Lounge Finding Derek Contest - an online contest where hunky guys competed to be the hero of my book - to show the importance of interactive web sites. I focused on the why and how to make your site interactive. This time, I’d like to get more [...]
WordPress.com has activated a feature without warning that has many up in arms of protest, making it one of the least welcoming additions to WordPress.com.
Since the beginning of WordPress.com, one of the most requested features has been the ability to showcase related posts from our own blogs. WordPress.com has activated this ability, but the [...]
Weblog Tools Collection has a list of the videos and special interviews of the speakers at WordCamp Dallas, including my presentation on WordPress Tips.
Check it out and tell me if I did okay. And be sure and watch everyone else. They did much better.
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I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra.
John is a blogger, author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user, web company owner and business man. He understands the importance blog statistics [...]
February 19, 2008 – 6:58 pm
It was late and I needed to repeat the use of an image I uploaded a year ago to the Blog Herald. I know WordPress is working on a new image uploader and multimedia management interface, but it can’t come soon enough for me. Clicking through only a few groups of the hundreds of images [...]
February 13, 2008 – 4:37 am
I travel a lot as part of my work and there are many times when access to the Internet just isn’t possible. Currently, our temporary residence in Oregon is on a farm over 30 minutes from “civilization”. The farm has satellite Internet, so snow, big storms, freezing fog, power outage, or a glitch in the [...]
February 4, 2008 – 4:28 am
I and many WordPress “representatives”, along with the developers and staff of WordPress and Automattic, are getting more and more complaints and requests for help dealing with content theft issues. We all need to clear this up and spread the word about how this works in relationship to WordPress.
In order to go after a copyright [...]
January 22, 2008 – 4:35 am
I blog on many different blogs, some of them mine. Each seems to be on it’s own time clock, including some of my blogs. For instance, I write for the Blog Herald and their time is set for the Philippines. On this blog, Lorelle on WordPress, the time was set for US East Coast Time [...]
January 4, 2008 – 4:21 am
I’d Rather Be Writing offers “My Blog and Podcast Site Are Now Merged into One — Steps on How I Did It”, an interesting step-by-step guide on combining two WordPress blogs into one, with tips for combining a podcast blog with a regular WordPress blog.
Maintaining two sites was burdensome. Whenever I published a new post [...]
January 2, 2008 – 5:57 am
Do you want to write a WordPress tip? I encourage you to do so, either on your blog, on the WordPress Support Forums, or for the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. It takes a lot of volunteer work to create a body of work for WordPress users to rely upon to help [...]
December 31, 2007 – 4:27 am
Avatars, or the well known Gravatars, are tiny images, often called your online identity, picture, badge, logo, or graphic image which represent you and/or your blog. Some use photographs of their face or body, or a body part like an eye, nose, or hand. Others use pictures of animals, flowers, scenics, or graphic images. Many [...]
December 24, 2007 – 5:34 am
In Why Giving Away Your Code is Not Dangerous, Abhijit Nadgouda of ifacethoughts looks at the issue of “sharing” and Open Source from an interesting perspective:
Imagine you run a transport service, ferrying passengers to destinations they want. A part of your job is to follow maps, find out new routes and build your knowledge about [...]
November 19, 2007 – 3:25 am
The following are my tips and recommendations to help you get the most out of WordPress, be it on WordPress.com or the full version of WordPress as presented to hundreds of WordPress fans at WordCamp Israel (English) recently.
This is a fleshed-out version of my program notes outline, with links to more tips and recommendations added. [...]
October 27, 2007 – 5:22 am
The In Series WordPress Plugin by Remstate has been updated recently. The Plugin makes writing article series and connecting them together in a series simple and easy, adding a link list of the articles in the series to each post within the series.
I’m a major fan of the popular, In Series WordPress Plugin, especially as [...]
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