How WordPress Users are Benefiting from WordPress.com

I’ve explained many times how wordpress.com is benefiting WordPress users as a testing site for the upcoming release of WordPress 1.6 (sorry – still not out yet!) and for WordPressMU. There are a lot of WordPress fans and volunteers out there who are, shall I say, “unhappy” with wordpress.com and WordPressMU and how it seems […]

A Guide to the WordPress Codex, The Online Manual for WordPress Users

WordPress is so easy, for the most part, you can use it right out of the box. Once you get familiar with the powerful features beyond the most simple post writing, creating Pages and categories, you will probably want to do more. The WordPress Codex is the online manual for WordPress users. It takes you […]

WordPress.com Blogs Now Offer More Than 35 Users Per Blog – For a Small Fee

WordPress.com offers unlimited users now on private blogs so you can turn your WordPress.com blog into your own blogging community. The free limit of 35 users will be enough for most people but if you’re building a private site that will have a large community or you’re a large organisation buying this upgrade is the […]

One Year Anniversary Review: Helping WordPress.com Users

WordPress has won very high marks and reviews for awesome customer service and documentation in the past two years. It was only natural when things got going for WordPress.com bloggers to provide similar top quality help and support. It took a while to create a WordPress.com Support Forum. Before it arrived, I pitched in with […]

At the Bottom: New Delete Comment Spam Button in Akismet for WordPress.com Users

With the recent high volume of nasty comment spam, most of which is caught by Akismet within WordPress.com blogs, I’ve been mentally chastising the developers for not including a DELETE SPAM button at the bottom of the caught spam list. I would scroll through 90 or more caught spam comments and get to the bottom […]

WordPress.com Now Offers Users More Users

In case you missed the announcement, WordPress.com blogs can now support more users than just you, the main user. From the Users panel in the Adminstration Panels, the second sub-panel is called Users and Authors. Part way down the page is the form to add users to your WordPress.com blog. Enter in the user name […]

WordPress.com Users Hit By Direct Attack – Stopped in its Tracks

I woke up to find my wordpress.com site attacked by a comment spammer CAUGHT BY WORDPRESS!!!! I bring it to your attention for several reasons. First, it was caught and marked for moderation because enough of the comment spam was clever enough to look, at first, sincere. Second, it was caught because enough of the […]

A Tagging Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users

I get a lot of questions about the tags I use at the bottom of most of my posts. I used to feature two sets of tags, one for Technorati tags and the other as navigation tags to search my site. Up until recently, these were created from a text file I kept open all […]

Users FAQ for wordpress.com

Donncha has released a FAQ for wordpress.com users which answers a lot of the most frequently asked questions. One of the questions and answers is to the recent stripping of all inline styles and use of Javascript inside of posts. While stripping out Javascript is something I can understand, protecting the site from potentially dangerous […]

Hello, wordpress.com users and testers!

To all of you new and older wordpress.com users, welcome to the WordPress Community, the “com” in wordpress.com. 😀 I just thought that I would take a moment to not only welcome you to our little corner of the world but help you through a few of the ins and outs of wordpress.com. There is […]

15 Minutes of Fame: Interviewing wordpress.com Users

While people are chasing invites to wordpress.com, I’d like to know who is using wordpress.com and how you are using wordpress.com. If you have a blog on wordpress.com, leave a comment telling me something about you and what you intend to do with your wordpress.com blog. I will choose 5 lucky people to interview and […]

WordPress School: Shortcodes

WordPress shortcodes are abbreviated code placed into the WordPress Visual or Text Editors that expands into a larger code structure. As we continue with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, it’s time to explore the basics of WordPress shortcodes. The following is the embed code for a Google Map, pointing to one of my favorite […]

How to Avoid the New WordPress.com Interface

For the past three to four years, WordPress.com users have been “experimenting” with the what is known as the “new” WordPress.com interface. A drag-and-drop-meets-wysiwymg interface (What You See is What You MIGHT Get), it is designed to make interaction with WordPress easier. I’m still waiting. What it continues to do is make my students and […]

Blame WordPress For the World’s Problems

Let’s call this person “wise” using air quotes to give you a description of where they come from in life. This “wise” person confronted to me at a public event to announce that WordPress was evil and must be destroyed. “After all,” he informed me soundly. “While WordPress says it supports freedom of speech, it […]

WordPress School: Adding Policies

It’s time to talk about policies in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. While every website, personal or professional, requires some policies, learning how to publish policies on a WordPress site involves learning about WordPress Pages as a content type, customizing the navigation menu, using jump links, creating lists, customizing links in Widgets, and a […]