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WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

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The folks at Automattic today released WordPress 2.6.3 which is a minor security patch to the Snoopy script they use for displaying rss feeds in the admin area.  Not an utterly crucial upgrade, but one you might want to take just to be sure your secure.  The upgrade took me 5 minutes using the auto upgrade plugin. One issue that I noticed while using the auto upgrade plugin, which was also upgraded, was that the script failed repeatedly on the…

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Geek.com Relaunched

Geek.com Relaunched

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For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals.  We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.   This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That…

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5 WordPress Features You Should be Using

5 WordPress Features You Should be Using

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Since I work with WordPress at a code level virtually everyday, I’ve got a pretty good handle on how the system works.  The thing that never ceases to amaze me is the number of feature requests I get from users for things that already exist in their system. I’ve seen it in other systems, but honestly, I’m still shocked at the number of great features that most people don’t know exist.  As a blogger, your blogging platform is the prime…

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Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

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When I started this site in March, after I stopped working with Vario Creative, where I had previously been blogging, I expected that the same traffic building steps that had worked for me before would work here.  After 5 months, I can safely say, that’s not the case. You see, when I started blogging at Vario, the important keys to getting readership were Technorati position and getting trackbacks from other sites.  In today’s world of sploggers and spammers, the trackback…

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WordPress as a Small Business Content Management System

WordPress as a Small Business Content Management System

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I’ve been telling everyone for a while that WordPress is a Content Management System – now I’m ready to prove it.  I’ve set up a small site for The National Gallery and Gift Shop in Sutton, MA using WordPress and I’m thrilled with the way it’s turned out.   Before I mention the features of what has been setup, you need to know one thing – I was able to train them how to enter content, manage their calendar and…

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Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

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Duncan Riley writes at Inquisitr that the Philadelphia Inquirer has set a new policy requiring that all “signature investigative reporting” appear in print before it hits the web site. Romenesko has a copy of the memo sent to Inquirer staff. The important parts: Beginning today, we are adopting an Inquirer first policy for our signature investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features, and reviews of all sorts. What that means is that we won’t post those stories online until they’re…

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WordPress 2.6 – It’s a CMS, Baby!

WordPress 2.6 – It’s a CMS, Baby!

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I remember when I first setup WordPress back in 2003, the old 1.x days, my comment was that “It’s just like a CMS (content management system) with most of the functionality removed.” Well, with the release of WordPress 2.6, I can finally eat my words. It’s now simply a content management system, and a darned good one at that. That’s right, content management system. To call it a blogging platform is to sell it short. It’s now all the features…

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Blog Aggregation

Blog Aggregation

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David Churbuck posts this morning on Blog Aggregation. We both did a blog aggregation project over at Reel-Time.com in 2003 which, as he notes, was well ahead of the curve (and probably the need). He’s got some excellent points, but I have a few things to add. The idea of a blog is something that many of us don’t fully understand. It’s basically an online journal that was designed to allow users without server level access to maintain their own…

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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun Buys MySQL

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An interesting move – and for most of you thinking “this doesn’t affect me” I can tell you you’re dead wrong. You see over the past couple years, MySQL has become the back end database for a good deal of the web. If you’re CEO doesn’t have his own Gulfstream, chances are that some of your mission critical applications and quite probably your own website is using MySQL for something, if not everything. I’ll withhold judgment on the whole thing…

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