Why WordPress Multisite is Critical for Surviving a Social Search Era
If you’re an online publisher, and you use WordPress, the time to get used to WordPress Multisite is now. Right now. As you may have noticed, Google is now employing social search. It’s what you might say a “hot button issue” in the online community. Why? Too many reasons to list here. Essentially, those that [...]
WordPress 3.0.2 is Out, Update Immediately
WordPress 3.0.2 has been released, and fixes a nasty security bug. I’m posting mostly because it hasn’t shown up in the Updates tab… click over to Updates in your WordPress backend to update as soon as possible. An alert should flash on your WordPress backend anyways within a day or so, but this one’s important [...]
My One Suggestion for VaultPress
Yes, a rare blog post on my own blog. I’ve been testing out VaultPress for awhile, and I’m pretty happy with it. While a bit pricey right now, it does deliver a lot of bang for its buck if you have a high-profile web site. If WordPress is part of your day job, VaultPress should [...]
Suggesting A Third Track for WordCamp
For starters, I’ll say that I like WordCamp. Before I start suggesting improvements, I wanted to get that out of the way. Matt delivered, as usual, a great State of The Word address. The BBQ lunch was infinitely better that what is served at conferences that cost several times more. And, even the non-WordPress talks [...]
Migrated to HostGator
You might have seen a blog maintenance notice. If you don’t, great! That means you’re on our new server, powered by HostGator. We’ve signed up with HostGator because, while we’ve been growing, so have they. HostGator now delivers hosting that is both speedy and resilient… with a support team to match. We’ve been testing them [...]
WordPress 2.6.2 Bug: TinyMCE Allows Injection of Phantom Save Tags
Long story short, a bug has surfaced in WordPress 2.6.2. It allows for the injection of the following code (or stuff similar to it): <p><span style=“padding: 1px 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 10000; cursor: pointer; left: 395px; top: 745px; color: #000000;”>save</span></p> The above string does not appear in HTML view. The only options I can come [...]
WordPress 2.5 Backend Gripes
I really don’t like the backend changes in WordPress 2.5. Really, really, really don’t like them. Most of the staff on PhoneNews.com doesn’t either… I’ve been getting an earful about it. The WordPress team says that they hired an external research team, to determine how people use the backend. Problem is, they weighted experienced and [...]
Review: E.Webscapes Design Studio for WordPress
This is a review of a designer for WordPress, E.Webscapes Design Studio. They did the current PhoneNews.com look and feel which I hired them to do. E.Webscapes’s lead designer wrote the book on WordPress… literally. But, that’s not the main reason that we chose them over at PhoneNews.com, we quoted several designers on their past [...]
Joomla Still Doesn’t Get it on Migrating
“For those people interested in migrating from Joomla! 1.0 please note that this is a continuously evolving process and is likely to be refined and optimized heavily over the next few weeks as feedback is received. There is no immediate need for people to migrate existing Joomla! 1.0 sites to 1.5 so please be patient [...]
More Companies Embracing Comment Spam (Updated)
By Christopher Price on November 19, 2009
This is a sad trend I’ve started to see. Big name companies endorsing comment spam. The comments are all too obvious. Someone posts seeming to have low-to-moderate experience with a topic. Then, in the middle, they link to a word like “antivirus” with a link to some company that rhymes with “Sophos”. It’s highly unlikely [...]
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