Category: WordPress
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6 WordPress blogs all updated to WP 2.8.2
If you use a commercially hosted blogging platform like Blogger, EduBlogs, WordPress.com, Squarespace, or Typepad, count your blessings when it comes to upgrade headaches. I do enjoy using and love self-hosted WordPress blogs, but there is a periodic price to pay in time as well as hand-wringing which comes with self-hosting. Updating / upgrading WordPress…
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WordPress plugins for a new blog
I setup a new WordPress blog today for a writing project, and used the following plug-ins. My somewhat out-of-date list of WordPress plug-ins I’m using here “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” is available on my about page. AddThis http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/ Feedburner Plugin http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483 No Revisions http://www.hostscope.com/wordpress-plugins/norevisions-wordpress-plugin/ PhotoDropper http://www.photodropper.com/wordpress-plugin/ PodPress http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/ ReCaptcha http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/ Riffly audio video…
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WordPress commenting restored thanks to phpMyAdmin table repair
A moment for joy and thanksgiving has arrived, in a very geeky sense– I was able to FIX the mySQL error which was causing comments to not work on my WordPress blog! I wrote about this last Wednesday in a “plea for help” post. Last week as I spent some time googling for answers, I…
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Help Needed! WordPress commenting isn’t working (WordPress database error Duplicate entry)
Ah, these are the moments I wish I had my own IT staff. If you’re a WordPress or mySQL guru perhaps you can help me! I am running WordPress on my main blog (“Moving at the Speed of Creativity”) and the blog has stopped accepting comments for some reason, as of Monday night (April 27,…
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Key for posting video embeds to WordPress – Disable visual editing
I figured out a mystery which had troubled me for some time: Why can I readily post embedded videos to my personal blog (this one) using MarsEdit, but when my children try to do the same thing to our family learning blog (Learning Signs) the video embed code gets stripped out? The answer, it turns…
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Self-hosted WordPress Blog Updates
One of the most important reasons educators and students should carefully consider blogging platforms like Class Blogmeister, Blogger, WordPress,com, and Edublogs is that blogging software provided via these services is updated / maintained for users by professionals. When you host your own WordPress blog, as I do, you’re on your own for technical support issues…
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Easily customizing WordPress for Mobile Users
The mobile web is huge and growing. No one creating content for the Internet today should ignore it. If you use a WordPress blog, the free WordPress Mobile 3.0 plug-in offers a seamless way to provide a customized, mobile-web friendly interface for your visitors viewing your site on an iPhone, Android-compatible phone, BlackBerry, or other…
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Gabcast recording auto-post to WordPress.com successful, not with Blogger
I am glad to be working with a local university instructor on a “student summary podcasting” project this semester which involves her students using the website Gabcast to record short (10 minute or less) summaries of each class lecture. Each student is being required to summarize ONE class lecture, as well as listen to and…
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Good morning, your WordPress blog has been hacked
Many, many thanks to Marino Ceccotti for his recent comment on my blog “about” page letting me know my WordPress installation had been hacked. These are the times it can be a little unnerving to be your own technical support department. Somehow, hundreds of invisible links were being appended at the bottom of each page…
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Can’t delete Akismet spam comments in latest WordPress
I’ve held my breath and crossed my fingers this evening updating the K-12 Online Conference blog from WordPress version 2.2 to the latest version 2.6.1. Everything seems to have gone smoothly (dare I say that) except when I try to delete identified Akismet spam comments I get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for…