I’d just like to show you one more improvement in WordPress 2.8 and then I’ll stop.  Promise! With older versions of WordPress you can only see one sidebar at a time in the widget panel.  For those of you with just one sidebar, this wasn’t a problem.  But for the rest of us it was [...]

I’ve made the jump to WordPress 2.8. What do I think?  I think that that the new theme downloader is fantastic! In WordPress 2.8 when you click on the “Appearance” tab in the left-hand navigation bar you’ll see a new option. See the “Add new Theme”?  When you click on that you’ll see a lovely [...]

The folks over at Common Craft have a great video that explains what RSS feeds are, why you’d want to use one and how to use one.

State governments across the country are looking for ways to increase state revenues.  North Carolina is one of the states considering taxing online revenue as a way to increase state coffers.  However their imminent legislation has had some unexpected results.   The Motley Fool states, Amazon is fighting back. It’s threatening to eliminate relationships with all [...]

Recently a friend and I were talking about Google search results.  We queried Google for the same term and received different results.  Why?  I was logged into my Google account at the time.  I discovered that Google uses people’s web history to try and give them more relevant search results.  While that might be nice [...]

This is a good news/bad news situation,  my friends.  Blog Perfume has written a great post on the 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time.   This isn’t a quickie list.  This is an in-depth analysis complete with photos of each theme.  That’s the good news. The bad news is that looking at themes is [...]

“My WordPress toolbar doesn’t look right.  I don’t have the controls that you’re talking about.”  When I hear things like this from clients I ask them to see if they’re working with the Visual or the HTML view of their posts (or page) editor. The above is the user friendly Visual Editor. As you can [...]

WordPress 2.8 is coming!  It’s scheduled launch date is next Wednesday. Geting new themes will be a snap. You’ll be able to download and install new themes directly from your dashboard.  No icky FTP required. The revamped widget area will be easy to use. The new layout of the widget area will allow you to [...]

Akismet – You have to install this!  OK, if you enjoy receiving hundreds, if not thousands, of spam emails then don’t install this.  Otherwise, Akismet is a must.  It will filter out most of the nasty comment spam.  If forced to make an estimate I’d say that Akismet catches 98% of spam. WP-DB-Backup – You’ve [...]