Upgrade to WordPress 2.2
I finally took the leap and upgraded from 2.1.x to 2.2 and everything looks good so far. Yea, I know 2.2.1 is already out. I’ll take that small step in another week. I haven’t begun using any of the new functionality yet but at first glance I can’t find any errors. If [...]
WordPress 2.2
WordPress 2.2 has been available for a couple weeks now. I haven’t updated yet, but am on the verge. Before I do, I’d like to hear stories of success or failure with this upgrade. I remember reading how John Chow had to back out of it following his first upgrade attempt. Have you upgraded yet? [...]
WordPress 2.2 Now Available
It’s been 43 days since the last WordPress release, so that makes it about time for a semi-major update. You can now update to WordPress 2.2. This update includes the integration of widgets. The widget functionality has been growing in popularity ever since it became a plugin option. Along with the Widgets integration this update [...]
WordPress upgrade
If you are running your blog on WordPress, you may have noticed and an update was released a couple weeks ago. I finally got around to upgrading my wordpress installation from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3. While this upgrade isn’t nearly as important as past upgrades, keeping up with all available security updates is always [...]
RSS Subscription Campaign
I’ve made a couple subtle changes to improve my RSS subscriptions in the past week. I’ve added a link at the top of the page, I’ve added a couple links within some posts asking for subscriptions, and I started taking advantage of the feedburner FeedFlare tool. All of these changes have had a [...]
Stop Comment and Trackback Spam with Akismet
There are many plugins that make your blog a better place to be (show top commentators, threaded comments, feedburner feed replacement). I am only now realizing that my favorite plugin is Akismet.
This plugin was installed by default with my blog, but for some unknown reason I didn’t enable it until my blog was [...]
RSS Feeds - FeedBurner
As a follow-up to my last post regarding the ability to effectively read multiple blogs via a tool like bloglines, I would now like to approach the topic of RSS feeds from the webmasters point of view. Maybe WordPress has some functionality that I am unaware of, but I don’t know of a way [...]
Top Commentators Plugin
Based on feedback I’ve received, I have added a new plugin to the site, show top commentators. Well, how it works is easy enough.
This Plugin encourages feedback and discussion by rewarding readers for making comments. The top 5 commentators are displayed off to the right along with the number of comments made and [...]
Wordpress 2.1.1 could be hacked
This just in from wordpress:
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual [...]
