Stories about ‘WordPress’


By Brett Bumeter

Today, I was working to do an upgrade on a WordPress installation created with Fantastico.  This was an upgrade from 2.6 to 2.7.  It should not have been a big deal, but repeatedly I received the following error:

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By Brett Bumeter

I recently read a couple articles trying to explain how to redirect a WordPress.com site to your own domain.  The process is not terribly pretty but not quite as ugly as redirecting blogger blogs to your own domain.

That said, WordPress.com offers a simple solution to redirect your blog appropriately to your own domain.

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That’s right, the nice...

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By Brett Bumeter

WordPress 2.7 is not here yet (2.65 is out with some security enhancements, but we haven’t made it that last five hundredths of a version point to 2.7 yet.

Matt Mullenweg does give a nice lecture and a bit of a demonstration in what will be coming in WordPress 2.7.  This is probably more of a way to wrap your mind...

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By Brett Bumeter

Here’s a really scary scenario.  You wake up one morning and check your WordPress blog and something doesn’t look right.  You login and can’t quite place it but something is missing.

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You go to write an article, and after finishing the write up you try and select a category and that’s...

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By Brett Bumeter

I have been expending a great deal of effort testing plugins that offer some form of management over nofollow links on a WordPress site.  I’m looking for something that will enable me to specifically select a page or Post by the Post ID and mark that page or post to always receive a nofollow tag whenever I link...

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By Brett Bumeter

I’m sitting at a WordCamp in Las Vegas today listening to the keynote address by Matt Mullenberg, the founder of WordPress (the software that powers this and all of my sites).  :) He provided some glimpses of where we will all go in the future as we use WordPress. ...

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By Brett Bumeter

Back in 2006, I established a ‘junk’ blog.  It was supposed to be something that I would use primarily to practice creative writing or just to use to un-block writers block.

I initially kept the site anonymous because I didn’t really care about it, didn’t expect anyone to read or visit it and only wanted to...

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By Brett Bumeter

Over the last couple of days a number of bloggers have been targeted by a new type of comment spam.  The spam typically comes from a different name and email address, but the same IP number range of 94.102.60.15x.  The x can be anything from 0 – 4.

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By Brett Bumeter

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I found an excellent tool at Blogworld.  Its not launched yet, but promises to enable readers of blogs to help recommend corrections and editing suggestions for WordPress blogs.

Now, I also work with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and from time to time I might make a mistake with it.  Despite my efforts at editing, I am a better writer than I...

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