This past weekend I went down to Orlando to attend the WordCamp there. You’d think for a long time WordPress guy like me WordCamps would be old hat but this was my fist one.
I picked up tons of little tidbits. Here are a few in no particular order.
Forward Looking
The WordPress core development team seems to [...]
Yesterday someone asked me what’s the best way to get started with WordPress. Good question.
With its free code and famous 5 minute installation, WordPress is a great platform for the do-it-yourself website and folks looking to have a top notch website on a very tight budget. Since WordPress installation is so straight forward should you go [...]
It doesn’t matter whether you develop lots of WordPress sites for clients like I do, are just getting started with WordPress, or are somewhere in between you are going to fall in love with the power, flexibility, ease and control that the Headway premium theme puts at your fingertips. Headway makes complex design changes – [...]
WordPress is an amazing web publishing platform with tremendous capabilities right out of the box. But what truly makes WordPress my platform of choice is the dizzying array of plugins that you can download (for free, mind you) to customize things exactly the way you want.
Plugins are simply bits of code that you can add [...]
Gravatars are an easy free way to add avatars to your website whether your site is built on WordPress or another platform. Here is all you need to do to get started with Gravatars…
On Tuesday WordPress released an update version 2.7.1. This release is being called a maintenance release and addresses 68 bugs and enhancements that were pointed out by users to the 2.7 release.
WordPress 2.7 Changes Everything
If you still haven’t updated your WordPress installation to the 2.7 series that was released before the holidays you are missing [...]
WordPress gave us yet one more security update to version 2.6 before the long anticipated major release of version 2.7, which is expected in the next few weeks.
The new WordPress version 2.6.5 addresses a security vulnerability as well as a few other very minor improvements. There are a total of five files modified in this [...]
Andrew Cunningham recently asked a good question about getting started using WordPress.
Can any of you guys recommend good, simple resources for learning how to use wordpress?
How do you get started? It’s a great question that deserves some more attention.
Your Objectives
Ultimately the best way for you to get started depends on what your overall objectives for [...]
Yesterday WordPress released a security update in Version 2.6.3. According to the WordPress development blog this version update corrects a vulnerability in the Snoopy Library.
Now unless you want the Red Barron to be able to cause havoc with your blog you will probably want to either update the two files that are changed in this [...]
I woke up this morning and see that WordPress released a new version yesterday. The new version 2.6.2 is a security release.
It looks like the security exploit they patched is a fairly low probability complex hack involving randomized password generation and a bunch of technical blah, blah, blah.
Even so, you probably should think about upgrading [...]
