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A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer, by David Coveney of the Liverpool-based InterConnectit IT. An excerpt: There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress. And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of [...]
Straightforward, simple instructions for a critical task: How to do a Full WordPress Backup and Restore. Vladimir Prelovac, on his blog, Prelovac.com, does things which seem to fall into two categories. The first is providing concise and clear instructions on important subjects which, despite their importance, don’t inspire people to write oustanding tutorials (or perhaps [...]
Matt Lawrence, one of the four people who have created How-To-Blog-TV (don’t let the .tv domain fool you – they’re doing “old-fashioned” blogging and instructional video), has written three posts which will introduce you to Twitter as blogging tool, and walk you through the necessary steps to get up and running. Integrate Your WordPress Blog [...]
Alison Garrett is the author of the new WP plugin ColorBoxes – and the proprietor of Aliso The Geek1. one of the principals in Barrett Creative2 and is the Interactive Architect at Brave New Media. ColorBoxes is exceptionally easy to use; it accepts html tags – but if you don’t know anything about html, or [...]
Randa Clay, an excellent designer, is also an apparently infinite source of freebies, and useful advice. A few of her recent offerings: Randa’s 10 favorite free fonts The Ultimate Premium Theme (I’m not telling – and it’s a complicated answer, anyway) If you need some inspiration – check out Randa’s portfolio RandaClay.com Evernote lets you [...]
The Time Release Plugin from Pie Palace is another brilliant piece of work from Erigami Scholey-Fuller, whose other plugins include MiniPosts and Irrepressible Fragment (about which I hope to be posting shortly) BiblioPress It’s also worth mentioning that the PiePalace blog is worth reading for its own sake – recent coverage of Canada’s national discussion/debate [...]
If you’re running more than one blog, and work in more than one browser tab, it’s easy to get confused. Easy for me, anyway. I switched monitors – found that I was having some trouble reading some portions of the WordPress dashboard, and quickly found Easy Admin Color Schemes, a WP plugin by James Dimick. [...]