I’ve been using Xenu’s Link Sleuth ™ for a long time.  How long?  I started writing code in 1998 and I think I found this tool within my first year as a website developer. Xenu goes through your site and finds broken links.  It’s a great tool for “traditional” (non-blog) websites.  Just download the [...]

On January 3rd WordPress released version 3.3.1.  The new version contains 15 fixes to WordPress 3.3.  It also address a security issue. If you haven’t updated to 3.3 yet, this is a great time to make the switch.  Not only will you get all the fixes, people who make themes and plugins will have had [...]

WordPress 3.3 is now available for download.  It has some great new features, including a drag-and-drop photo uploader.   You can learn more about it on the WordPress blog. While WordPress 3.3 has some great new features, I’d recommend not updating for about a week. Some plugins are having problems with the new WordPress code.  So [...]

I’m amazed to look at my blog and see that three months have passed since my last post.  What I have I been doing? HostMySite and WordPress 3.2 In July WordPress 3.2 came out. It contained a significant change.  PHP, one of the coding languages used in WordPress, now needs to be at least version [...]

I took a little break for the Fourth of July holiday, but WordPress didn’t. Instead they were hard at work. WordPress 3.1.4 came out June 29th and WordPress 3.2 came out on the Fourth. WordPress 3.1.4 was a security release. All the changes for 3.1.4 are rolled up into 3.2. So if you missed 3.1.4, [...]

We’ve got another security update from WordPress.  When it’s a security update I always advise taking the two or three minutes to backup your system and make the update. I remember the olden days of manual WordPress updates.   I’d FTP out to the server and download everything, then I’d upload the new files making sure [...]

Sorry to be so long about updating you about WordPress 3.1.2.  My recent days have all been about GoDaddy.  You can count on several blog posts about last week’s adventures.  In the meantime, I do NOT recommend GoDaddy for WordPress hosting. You can also look forward to an exciting tale of how asking GoDaddy to [...]

Do you ever get a comment and wonder if it’s comment spam or not?  I’m talking about comments that make it through Akismet and sound like they might be real. “I like your site and have added it to my bookmarks.  Thanks so much for helping me with this topic.” The comments are generally short, [...]

WordPress 3.1.1- What’s New WordPress 3.1.1 fixes a large number of bugs.  It also includes three security updates. WordPress 3.1.1 – Should You Update? Yes. As I always say, don’t take the risk of running old software with known security issues. Don’t forget to update your plugins while you’re at it. Running an old version [...]

As I said last week, WordPress 3.1 has been released.  At the time, I advised waiting before you upgrade.  I like to let other brave souls experiment new software releases. Since then I’ve updated several WordPress installations and read about the new version of WordPress.  I haven’t seen any problems myself.  However I’ve read about [...]