Are you using the Related Posts (aka, Related Entries) Plugin? If not, you should! As much as we would like to think that blog visitors are interested in anything we write, the majority of visitors are looking for something specific. And,...
It’s time to upgrade your WordPress blog yet again with the recent security release for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress. If you have several installations like I do, this news means quite a bit of work. You must...
One quirk of WordPress (starting at version 2.1) is the interaction between the ‘more’ tag and the RSS feed. Even if you choose ‘Full Text’ under Syndication Feeds | Reading Options and then use the ‘more’ tag, your post gets cut...
Amazon [[AMZN]] has just announced beta release of contextual PPA links. Dubbed ‘Context Links‘, the new feature will automatically identify and link relevant phrases within page content to Amazon products. Setup is via the Associates admin panel, Associates Central->Build Links->Context Links....
Yet another security release for [tag]WordPress[/tag]. The new version includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. Due to the possible security issue, all WordPress users are urged to upgrade to the...
According to the WordPress Codex the requirements for the [tag]WordPress[/tag] 2 series are as follows: WordPress server requirements for Version 2.1: PHP version 4.2 or greater MySQL version 4.0 or greater (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)...
Wikipedia has added rel=”nofollow” onto URLs in the en.wikipedia.org’s article namespace. This move was in response to a rumor of a “search engine optimization world championship” contest targeting Wikipedia. The attribute was implemented on January 20th. Here is an example from...