Stories about ‘WordPress’


By Brett Bumeter

Quick WordPress Tip about deleted Tags Creating 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools

If you delete a wordpress tag, it will create a 404 error if a visitor or possibly as important, Google Bot comes through to re-index your site.

Sure you can redirect that deleted tag link, but if you later create it again on the fly with a new post, your redirection...

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By Brett Bumeter

I found this cool looking plugin recently that helps you optimize keywords within a WordPress Post or Page.  It doesn’t help you find keywords, but once you know the keywords that you want to emphasize with a <strong> tag for example, you can type in the word into the admin panel and the plugin will automatically place the keywords in bold for...

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By Brett Bumeter

I just installed the 2.2.0.17208 Standard Edition of Artisteer, and Artisteer will be available for Mac Users very soon. . . .

Artisteer to support Mac Users Next

Here are some of...

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By Brett Bumeter

For a while now, I ‘ve had a bit of a flash problem.  Some of my drop down menus, that are generated via css, drop down behind flash objects that I embed on my wordpress paqes, such as flash images generated by snagit (images with clickable hot spots) or youtube videos, or screencast videos.

I found this particularly helpful for menus...

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Organized by Phoenix based WordPress Hosting company Page.ly, the PressNomics conference sessions are focused exclusively on the commercial economy fueled by startups and SMB's leveraging WordPress. Discussion topics will include: bootstrapping to profitability, software licensing guidelines, SaaS, interface and application design, and finance.

The open source web publishing platform WordPress supports a very successful commercial economy estimated near $1B/yr. Commercial entities of all kinds serve the market of ~72 million WordPress powered sites and blogs with custom designed themes, plugins, web hosting, and service based consulting. PressNomics is a once a year gathering of international WordPress professionals to learn,...
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PressNomics 2012 is offering early bird registrations for this WordPress Conference in Arizona organized by Page.ly.

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By Brett Bumeter

Since July, I have been experiencing CPU usages on my Virtual Dedicated Server.  In July, my host InMotion Hosting, whom I have had an excellent relationship with for over 3 years, recommended that I should move to a ‘new faster server’ and they would migrate my accounts for free.

Sounded good, I asked a few questions,...

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By Brett Bumeter

I received an email today from a member of our local WordPress meetup group asking the following question:

Got a minute to clue me in on how my WordPress site got hacked?
My service provider said it was easier to do because my WP
version wasn’t updated to the recent version. What can...

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By Brett Bumeter

image I read an article from my New Media Expo (now Blogworld) friend Todd Cochrane today.  WordPress 2.8+ no longer pings different services as fast as it used to.

The pings now go...

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By Brett Bumeter

When the automatic (push button) upgrade of plugins within WordPress first became available, it was the best thing since sliced bread or maybe even WordPress itself.

But over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that first one then several, then almost all of my plugin upgrade attempts were failing.  It started with the xml sitemap generator plugin.  For some reason,...

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