Tag Archives: Wordpress

Blogging belongs to those over 30?

I was bouncing around the triple W (triple W?) today not paying too much attention about where I was going or how I was getting there when I came across a cnet article titled; Blogging declines among teens, young adults. The title alone was enough to make me head to the article and give it [...]

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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it. | A reply

You never know what kind of response you might get from a post. Anyone who blogs realizes this.
You might write a post believing that it would elicit a decent response in the way of comments only to find it languishing in a desert of non-responsiveness. Then there are the other “spur-of-the-moment” type posts you [...]

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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it.

I just don’t get it.
When it comes to home computers and the software that runs on them I’m not a developer I’m a user. A technically advanced user, yes but a user nonetheless. Same goes for software that runs in the so-called “Cloud”. It takes a certain mindset, a certain way of thinking to [...]

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I wish WordPress could do this

I have to admit that when it comes to browser bookmarklets, the WordPress “Press This” has evolved into a very usable, slimmed down, pinch hit publishing version of the TinyMCE editor that’s complete with all the basic features of the full WordPress editor at hand. Very usable indeed:

But man, I wish it had this kind [...]

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WordPress 2.8.1 fixes 2.8 auto upgrade bug

WordPress 2.8 has a bug and a rather large one for those who have been unfortunate enough to have experienced it. And it has to do with the automatic (core) upgrade feature. Here’s an excerpt from Dougal Campbell’s recent post about this:
But the big problem driving a quick update is a bug in the core [...]

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WordPress 2.8—up one blog and downed the other.

I have two blogs to my name. This one and another that I’ve done absolutely nothing with for the past few months despite my best intentions. Both have well maintained databases and clean, dusted, well swept installs. Both use most of the same plugins. I auto-upgraded both from WordPress 2.7.1 to 2.8 two days ago.
I’ve [...]

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WordPress 2.5 Hits the Streets! FYI on 2 Plugins.

Today’s the day folks. The long awaited WordPress 2.5 had the final stamp of approval slapped onto by Matt M. earlier this morning and the final release has just been let out into the daylight. I’m not going to try to go over everything at the moment since this new version has been rebuilt from [...]

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WordPress 2.5 RC2 Hits the Streets

For those brave souls who have been running the "bleeding edge" builds or WordPress 2.5 RC1, WordPress RC2 has been released and is ready to be downloaded. I’m not going to provide a download link for those who haven’t already seen this in their Dashboard’s for the following reason:
Warning:  If your using the Simple Tags [...]

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