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Nov 5, 2011

While I am a fan of Monty Python's Spam skit, I am not a fan of automated WordPress spam, and it seems to be getting worse every day. Of course the large majority of WordPress comment spam is just automated comments posting directly to the WordPress wp-comments-post.php file. I have ...

Oct 1, 2011

If you run a WordPress powered website you probably know how important it is to backup your website database and files. If you don't know that you need to be doing that please start! There are lots of different methods to backup your WordPress database and files and I perform regular ...

Aug 29, 2011

Building a website used to be extremely difficult. You had to know HTML, cascading style sheets, possibly javascript and graphic design. Things have changed, now it is possible to build a website in under 60 minutes. Don't believe me? Here are the steps you need to create your own website ...

Jun 11, 2011

One of the tasks I have been doing regularly lately is converting older static HTML websites into WordPress websites. For smaller websites it is not difficult to copy and paste the data into the new WordPress site. The problem is, what do you do with a larger website of a ...

Oct 14, 2010

One of the reasons I love to work with WordPress is because it is so easy to extend it using plugins and themes. With mobile usage on the rise it is becoming more important to have not just a website but also a mobile version of your website so people ...

Jul 7, 2010

I have written about some of the premium themes that are available for WordPress before but I wanted to tell you about a fairly new premium theme that is available for WordPress that I am quite impressed with. It is called Headway and it is different than many of the ...

Jun 18, 2010

If you use WordPress for your website or blog you might have noticed that WordPress 3.0 is now available. This is a major upgrade so I highly recommend you backup your database, and it would not hurt to make a complete backup of your current installation just in case something ...

Mar 26, 2010

I recently bought a Motorola Milestone smartphone and I have been paying closer attention to mobile websites. I have talked about making a mobile version of your website available in the past but it has become increasingly more noticeable to me how important the mobile space is becoming. Making applications seems ...

Oct 22, 2009

WordPress has released 2.8.5. It is a hardening release, taking some of the latest enhancments from the upcoming 2.9 release. Highlights of the 2.8.5 release according to the WordPress blog are: The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently ...

Jul 30, 2009

Last week I open up the doors to questions. WordPress or Joomla? Which is better and why? I have actually posted about WordPress and Joomla in the past. That problem seems to have been fixed and I have since created WordPress powered websites with large numbers of pages and not suffered ...