December 29, 2009 |
Blogging, HowTo
Some of my posts have been getting longer and longer, especially how-to’s. It’s hard to scan the front page for articles, and I thought it was time to switch from full posts to excerpts on the home page. Why have excerpts instead of full posts on your home page Some reasons you might want to [...]
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December 19, 2009 |
Blogging, Software and Downloads
WordPress 2.9 is out and it has a lot of new features to make using WordPress easier. 1. Global undo/trash 2. Image editor 3. Batch plugin updating 4. Easier video embedding It also has 4 under-the-hood features that make blogging better with WordPress: 1. Canonical URLs 2. Automatic database optimization 3. Comment metadata 4. Faster [...]
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December 18, 2009 |
Blogging, Software and Downloads
The upcoming WordPress 2.9 release has a lot of new features. Here are 10 that may make your life easier: Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete) Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client rel=’canonical’ for singular pages Scroll back to the same location after saving a [...]
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December 14, 2009 |
Blogging
Jane Wells posted an entry on the WordPress Blog about canonical plugins. That would be plugins which are recognized as the standard plugins for some of the most-requested functionality in WordPress. community-developed (by more than one person) GPL verified and secure tested against new versions of WordPress live on the WordPress repository I particularly like [...]
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November 27, 2009 |
Misc
The Unmask Parasites blog has uncovered a devious method being used by a particular network of malware sites. Maleware purveyors are creating subdirectories in legitimate blogs where they host their own illegitimate blogs. The illegitimate blogs are targeted toward very specific and unpopular Google search terms, such as “blue mustang picture”, “upstate ny photos”. Interestingly, [...]
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