Securing or as some have dubbed ‘hardening’ your WordPress is important. Why? Well, it allows you to keep out hackers or if you have guest writers, you can make sure they do not take over your blog and boot you out. Also, it could help you with spammers. If you are reading this article and
[Continue Reading...]Blogging Drama: Smear Campaigns, Leave That To The Gossip Sites
I have been noticing a trend of people finding it their personal right to smear someone who they do not know anything other than the tweets or certain people. In fact, recently, an incident mentioning @AlohaArleen came up. I have never met her in person, but I tweet with her on Twitter and have been
[Continue Reading...]ScholarPress – Combining Education With WordPress
ScholarPress ( @scholarpress on Twitter)allows users to be able to run a class management on your WordPress installation. Yes, classes, like in class schedules, biblographies, and assignments. The plugin is WordPress Mu supported ScholarPress will be presented at WordCamp New York City 2009. ScholarPress has been in the works since 2007 and has several staff:
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Review: WordPress Audio Player
I had been looking for a decent player for a client’s website and tried quite a few until I came across WordPress Audio Player. The plugin was developed by Martin Laine It is currently on version 2.0 beta 6. The plugin WILL work in WordPress 2.8.6. To install, you can simply look up ‘WordPress Audio
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.8.6 Available!
On November 12, 2009, WordPress released version 2.8.6. These fix several security issues with the WordPress. One was a cross-site scripting issue or known as XSS for Press This. Normally with the press this function in your WordPress admin panel you can bookmark and publish your favorites to your site. What was happening was that
[Continue Reading...]Blogging 101: Advertising
For those who are seeking a lot of traffic, whether because of selling a product or just to push your content, advertising might come to mind. These days there are text links, full page advertisements, a various assortment of banners. Of course, there are many programs out there too that offer to help webmasters advertise
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