May 24, 2009 | Blogging

Did you know that if you make the smallest change in a blog post, the “last updated” date changes? Prevent that with the WordPress Minor Edit plugin.

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May 16, 2009 | Blogging, Novice

Nofollow is an HTML element attribute promoted by Google that purportedly helps stop blog spam. Elements and attributes OK, let’s break that down. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language that web pages are written in. It takes normal English text, and adds additional information (called “markup”) that allows machines (computers) to take an action [...]

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December 13, 2008 | Blogging

The Lorelle blog has and interesting blog post, Do You Update Posts or Post Updates?, which asks whether or how old posts should be updated with new information. According to post, there are three ways you can go about this: Update the Original Post. Post an Announcement but Link to the Original and Back Again [...]

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December 12, 2008 | Blogging

I’m playing around with the latest version of Scribefire to make sure I know what happens after selecting a given option. The purpose of this post is to see what happens (if anything) when uploading images with the Scribefire Quickblogging toolbar. This is a Firefox toolbar that shows up when you navigate to a post [...]

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December 12, 2008 | Blogging

I was using the Cutline theme for this blog. After adding images in some posts, I observed that the images overflowed the area allotted for posts horizontally. That was in Firefox, in which I normally work. But when I happened to view the same post in Internet Explorer, I observed the image was resized to [...]

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July 10, 2008 | Blogging, Developer, Power User

If your blog is the main point of focus for your website, you probably want to it serve your pages when a user hits the root of your website, such as: http://example.com/ But, for the sake of keeping your root directory organized on your webserver, you might not want to install WordPress in that directory. [...]

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July 7, 2008 | Blogging

This image was added using the “Insert/edit image button” on the visual editing toolbar (keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+M): The “Image Description” was set to “Yellow flowers”. WordPress set the “alt” attribute to “Yellow flowers”, but not the “title” attribute. This means that there is no “tooltip” that appears when you hover the mouse over the photo. [...]

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July 7, 2008 | Blogging

I’m having a hard time figuring this one out. I think one think I’ve manage to figure out is that WordPress version 2.3.1 didn’t have a difference between tags and categories. Tags were categories were tags.But in version 2.5.1, there is a difference. For one thing, on each post editing page, there are two, separate [...]

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