Archive for wordpress

Problogger - Secrets For Blogging a Six Figure Blog

Excerpt: After hearing the rave reviews, I too purchased Problogger's book - Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income from Amazon. Tons a really good stuff on making this kind of stuff happen with your blog. The book walks you through everything it takes to achieve success...choice of bloggin

How do you select a title for a blog posting with Google Docs?

Excerpt: Blog Posting Through Google AppsThis thing is still a little messy for posting to blogs. Even though I tag the article (which should tack it to a category) it still doesn't. Also, how do you create the posting name? Please, somebody let me know. :(

Wordpress 2.5.1 Security Update

Excerpt: Well, not only do I hate the new UI, but now I hate the fact that this is a big "Oops! We forgot a few things" patch for Wordpress. Apparently there are 70 things that are "fixed" with this update. Yes, I know, 2.5 is so cool because you can update to the latest version from within Wordpress,

Wordpress 2.5 Coming Soon

Excerpt: I'm totally excited to hear that Wordpress 2.5 is coming out.  Where did I hear about this?  Well over at the Wordpress Blog of course! There are quite a few enhancements and improvements...too many to list, so here are 5 that I'm happy to see: 1) Dashboard Widgets 2) Multi-file upload wit

Deactivate Wordpress Plugins through PhpMyAdmin

Excerpt: Recently I've updated my Wordpress install through Fantastico and blew up the site. Apparently the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin contains variables that are being used in the new Wordpress 2.3.3 upgrade. I brought up the website to see nothing but a php error...even when trying to access the admin pa

Using Windows Live Writer with Joomla

Excerpt: Many of you know that I am a fan of Windows Live Writer when using Wordpress.  Well, I've decided to see if I could use it with another great content management system, Joomla.  Out of the box, Joomla is not compatible with Live Writer, however I did find a few tools to get it to work.&nb

Revver Wordpress Video Plugin

Excerpt: I've just installed the plugin to see what it has to offer.

MS Live Writer Running on XP Pro 64bit

Excerpt: If you are like me, you are one super-duper Windows software engineer running a super-duper powerful duo-core PC running Windows XP Pro 64bit.  If you are like me, you love to post to your blogs with Windows Live Writer. If you are like me you are steaming mad that Microsoft has yet to rel

My List of Ping Servers for Blogs

Excerpt: My list of ping servers that I use when I do some blog posting. Not sure if they are all in use, so let me know if you run into any inactive ping servers. http://blogsearch.google.com/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://www.bloglines.com/ping http://ping.f

Garbanzo Christmas

Excerpt: Thanks again for Killjoycomics.com!

Taking on Wordpress and Flickr

Excerpt: I've recently installed Community Server over on Emailfriends.com as an experiment in social networking and to extend the user experience to Emailfriends.com.  This platform is pretty cool and is 100% ASP.NET 2.0/C#.  Everyone is used to running social networking apps with PHP/mySQL, so t

Ping Pong Ding Dong - My Private Collection

Excerpt: My friend was asking me where to ping when he posts a new blog entry.  I told him to go out back behind the house if he wants. hehe...ok, that was a bad joke.  But anyways here is my list of ping services I use: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://r

Google Sitemaps for WordPress or Windows Client?

Excerpt: I've been generating sitemaps for Google using SoftPlus GSite Crawler and the SiteMap plugin for Wordpress.  I'm torn though...which is the better choice for generating the sitemap for Google?  The Wordpress plugin automatically generates the sitemap after each posting and it does this f

Just Trying Out BlogJet

Excerpt: Just trying the new Blogjet software to write to my Wordpress blog.  Seems to be working ok. I’m still looking for an editor that lets me play around with slugs.  The interface top Blogjet is pretty quick and is not as buggy as the Windows Live Writer BETA.  Although I must say

Windows Live Writer BETA Editor

Excerpt: I've just downloaded to try the Windows Live Writer Editor to write posts from a windows program rather than the wordpress screen. Everything seems to be ok so far, but I don't see anywhere of how to post a page.  There are selections for categories though. One thing I do like is that it lets y

How to Screw Up Your Blog

Excerpt: Well folks, I thought I really screwed up this time. I've recently decided to do away with the regular ASP.NET super hot and flashy tonyrocks.com website and just focus on the blog. I wanted to migrate pages and links to the blog and then get rid of the blog directory and move the blog into th

Back Up My Wordpress Database? Why?

Excerpt: Why such a post you ask? Why should you backup your Wordpress database (or any database for that matter)? Because if you are like me, sometimes you name your databases names that have nothing to do with your web application. Take my Timeshare blog for instance. Yes, I have it running off