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The Information Sells upgrade to WordPress 3.0 seems to have gone smooth as silk. If you are going to upgrade, here’s my advice (I assume your blog is already at WordPress 2.9.2 If you are at an earlier version – follow the steps below to upgrade to the current version, then upgrade to 3.0 Don’t jump [...]

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No matter how fast you run or how hard you work, when you run into a wall, you are stymied. Sometimes you can only peer over the wall, wondering why everyone else seems to be getting ahead. Sometimes you just bang your head into the wall until you give up. The wrong tools turn a [...]

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Any version of WordPress older than WordPress v2.8.4 is vulnerable to a new attack. So first, before reading any further, take a minute and upgrade your blog. Remember to     1. Back up     2. Disable all plugins After the upgrade, re-enable you plugins and you should be back in business. Now that your blog is [...]

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WordPress 2.8 is officially available for download The big news – Themes can now be downloaded and installed from within the Dashboard, just like plugins. This makes WordPress even easier to use and customize. No need to download, unzip, and upload a new theme ever again. Just browse the theme gallery, pick your poison, and [...]

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If you spend time working with WordPress – that is, not blogging, but testing plugins, tweaking themes, modifying stylesheets, and generally just messing with the code – you’ve probably wished you could test your changes before hitting “Publish” on your blog. Well, you can. Installing the services needed to run WordPress on a Windows computer [...]

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Oh boy! I just upgraded Information Sells to WordPress 2.7 So far so good. THE UPGRADE I’ve been upgrading my plug ins conscientiously, as new versions are released. Sadish announced that all his themes are WP 2.7 ready. So, although I’d planned to wait at least a few seconds before upgrading, I jumped right in. [...]

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I went to WordPress.com this morning to help a friend diagnose a problem with her blog – and discovered that WordPress.com blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 2.7 (No – WP 2.7 wasn’t what caused the problem. It was just some misplaced text.) WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 appeared on Dec. 1. The final version, [...]

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WordPress is a very powerful, highly customizable tool. The folks behind the scenes and the thousands of active developers are very responsive to the needs and requests of ordinary users. But WordPress suffers from one weakness endemic to the Open Source community: there are no easy to understand instructions. Very little about PHP is intuitive. [...]

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Janelle Elms of OSI Rock Stars will be hosting a webinar with me on this coming Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 12 noon Pacific Time. Among other things, we’ll take a special, backstage sneak peak at WordPress 2.7′s new Dashboard and Plugin features. I’ve installed a beta copy of WordPress 2.7 on my web site just [...]

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If you enjoy the posts here on Information Sells, I think you’ll enjoy my new eBook, Blogging With WordPress. About 25% of the content has previously appeared on the blog – and about 75% has never been published anywhere before. The PDF ebook has 81 pages describing everything from installing a WordPress blog on a [...]

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The next version of WordPress, version 2.7, is scheduled for release in Novemeber. It looks like there will be some very cool new features and refinements to the Dashboard. You can see a demo here: http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-27-demo

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Sadish Bala, the creator of the theme Palaam, which is used on this site, ran a contest last month, offering one of his beautiful Premium Themes for free if you were using one of his excellent free themes. The rules were a little more complicated than that, but basically Sadish looked at blogs using his [...]

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What’s the truth about plug-ins? Are they the fastest way to cripple a WordPress blog? Or are they the essential ingredient that makes WordPress blogs so useful? The answer – as you probably guessed – is both! A bad plug in can take down your blog. Even a good plug in can go bad and [...]

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If you do your homework between the time you fall in love with a theme and the time you pull out your credit card, you can spend your time writing instead of pulling out your hair. And you’ll have a blog you can be proud of.

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Picking the theme (or template) for your WordPress blog can be one of the most important decision you will make about your blog. Why does it matter so much? Because so many people choose the wrong theme for the wrong reasons. The theme isn’t just responsible for the blog’s appearance. It’s the structure of your [...]

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