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It's a typical workday. Either you suddenly decide to check on your website (which I recommend doing daily,) or the worse case scenario, someone tells you (preferably in private with a phone or email, and not on Twitter or Facebook) that "Something's wrong with your site." You then fire up a tab or a browser window ...
Just in case you didn't know, Thesis (aff link), a premium WordPress theme, recently upgraded versions from 1.8 to 1.8.2. After the upgrade, I logged back in to the WordPress Dashboard and could not find the Thesis Dashboard Menu. So I went to Thesis support section to see what to do. The answer was to deactivate ...
It may just take you to the next level. I've been doing these updates for folks on their WordPress blogs like a zombie and I see a feature or plugin that they discover or they have and I ask myself why not I? I upgraded the core theme to the main site and Volia! I had instant ...
After several months, I was finally able to take a weekend afternoon and do something for me. Move my blog from free-hosted Tumblr to self-hosted WordPress. I had intentions of exporting my Tumblr blog months ago since Tumblr's outage. Little things were starting annoying me. There were some posts that I wished weren't auto posted to ...
Yesterday, I attended the WordPressNYC Meetup "Open Mic" night. We got a sneak peak at WordPress 3.2, which is scheduled to drop in a month or so. We also talked about different WordPress friendly hosting options as well as the importance of backing up both your database and your WordPress files. I feel sorry for those who didn't ...
This Ask STEPH question comes from another client (whom shall remain nameless until I have cleared it). Why should I get a WordPress.com account if I have a self hosted WordPress.org site? If you want your self-hosted WordPress site to be protected from spammy comments, then it is highly recommended that you register for a free WordPress.com ...
How come on the Platinum SEO Plugin for WordPress that the Title and Keyword Fields extend to my Category section? Is there a way this can be fixed? Thanks, Me
After a long hiatus, the "Ask STEPH" formerly "Ask nextSTEPH" section is back. This question comes from Ja-Naé Duane: What is the difference between WordPress MU and Buddypress? WordPress Multi-Site (formerly WordPress Mu) allows an administrator to create multiple WordPress sites under the same installation. The administrator would activate multi-site functionality, there fore creating a network ...
Typepad is not the only platform that can tout celeb cred. Checkout these WordPress sites. WordPress Showcase: 20 High Profile Sites Running on WordPress http://wpmu.org/wordpress-showcase-20-high-profile-sites-running-on-wordpress/ (Sent from Flipboard) Sent from my iPad
WordPress.com users are no longer being held back. Now they can also have custom contact forms on their blogs.New contact form builder comes to WordPress.com users (and .org users)
