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WordPress Update Leads to Template Trouble

Chris — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:07:56 +0000

I recently updated this site to WordPress 2.3.1 and it seems my template doesn’t completely like the new version. This site looks pretty bad under IE 6, but I’m working to get it corrected this evening.

In the mean time there is always the RSS feed.

SEO Tips for Author Blogs

Chris — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:43:48 +0000

Tom Masters of the Future Perfect Publishing Blog has an interview with Wiley authors Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin who give some great SEO tips for bloggers.

Every author should be blogging, and the interview includes several great tips every blogger should take advantage of.

One tasty morsel includes a link to some great SEO plugins for WordPress Ill be trying out later this week, and of particular interest was their thoughts on the social web as it pertains to SEO:

If you’re successful at building truly buzzworthy content, then you can try to use the social web to your advantage. It helps to know what you want to get out of the social web before you put a lot of effort into it: Are you going for pure branding? If so, set up a branded MySpace page or upload your logo-stamped videos to YouTube. Are you trying to be recognized as an expert on an techie topic? If so, seed your content into Digg. Are you trying to sell refurbished drill bits to manufacturing clients? Yeah… Web 2.0 probably shouldn’t be your highest priority.

Wordpress Plugin Directory

Chris — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:59:50 +0000

Another reason to love Wordpress – a new plugin directory from the folks at wordpress.org.

There is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.

You can get a much better idea about plugin quality and compatibility from the site.

In the future you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress about plugins you use that have updates.

I continue to be impressed with the extendability and control afforded by Wordpress. With such an active developer community, I have yet to be unable to find a plugin that provides some feature I am looking for.

Now twittering from my blog posts

Chris — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:05:08 +0000

As a follow up to yesterday’s post about Twitter, I just installed Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress.

Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.2 (this is not optional)

Chris — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:31:10 +0000

If you installed Wordpress 2.1.1 you may be at risk for an exploit, according to Matt Mullenweg:

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

I upgraded my installation last night with exactly zero hiccups by following the instructions here.

I will blog more about Wordpress in the future, I am sure. It is the best platform I have used, and I love the variety of themes, plugins and widgets made available by the community.