There’s a page on your site that never gets any love. You don’t really spend time thinking about it, your readers hate it when they see it and Google dings you for search if you don’t have it set up correctly. The lowly 404 page… Admit it, you probably don’t even know what yours looks like. Why should you? You setup everything right on the site, then no one should ever see it. Wrong…no matter how well you run your…
I’m really just posting to test that everything is working in WP 3.2 – I’ve just done the upgrade here as a test. So far it’s looking good, but you should be aware this is a major level upgrade and also is the point at which WP leaves behind legacy support for older versions of PHP and MySQL – you should have: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater This upgrade means that not all hosts are…
Over the past two months I’ve had a look at two different sites running on WordPress that were running on Windows Servers. In both cases, the sites were having issues, and in both cases, they could not get simple functionality they wanted to work on the servers and ended up moving to Linux hosting. Does WordPress run on Windows? Yes, most definitely. I can attest that I’ve run serveral installations going back to the old 1.x days. The problem is…
Nothing major, just did a quick backup then hit the upgrade button. While things may have changed significantly in the backend code, there really isn’t much to show you here. WordPress MU (the multiblog variant of WordPress that is used on WordPress.com) is now built into the maintstream code. Thus endeth the tyranny of MU, a code branch I personally despised. Custom menus make it really easy to create a special nav menu. I’ve already used this, and it’s a…
Over the past two years, we’ve seen the genie come out of the bag on blogging. In the good old days if you wanted our content, you came to our blog. Now, our content is being automatically posted in a bunch of spots, perhaps on Facebook, Google Buzz, Google Reader, and even the headline shows up on Twitter. Then we throw our participation on those other sites in, and now we’re all over the place. It’s hard for us to…
The permalink – nothing could be more core to the concept of blogging, and indeed, content management. In it’s early inception, it was the one link to rule all others. The problem is that with the advent of microblogging systems like Twitter, the permalink has been devalued and now faces possible extinction. From Wikipedia: A permalink, or permanent link, is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. Because a permalink…
I got the notice last night that WordPress 2.8.6 was released to fix a pair of security holes. So I hopped right into the admin console from my Iphone and in 2 minutes, it was updated. If you have a WordPress installation, I urge you to update right away as well. This will almost certainly be the last release prior to the much anticipated release of 2.9 which is our next major (feature related) release. Aaron Brazell had a great…
A new WordPress release came out last night. Unlike the previous, this is what they are calling “a hardening release”, i.e. it is generally designed to make the code base more secure, but doesn’t fix any known vulnerabilities. As with all minor level releases, I suggest you update as soon as possible, if for no other reason than to stay current. From their blog: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within…
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission issued it’s first change the policy on endorsements in over 30 years. From this point forward, if you accept any form of payment for a post, you need to disclose it. PCWorld.com sums it up: Bottom Line: If you receive gifts, money or any other type of compensation from a product manufacturer or service provider you have to disclose it. For the record, it’s always been my policy that if there’s any possibility of conflict…
For some time, I’ve been looking for the next compelling thing in social media sites. For that next development that transforms the way we interact, that re-envisions forums, chat, photo galleries, articles, etc; in fact a redefinition of the way in which we communicate online altogether. For the past couple years, I’ve watch as vBulletin, my favorite forum software, basically did minor incremental releases, remaining essentially the way it was in 2001. Wordpress has done better, yet still, the fundamental blog/cmslite experience remains pretty…