Category: WordPress
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Spam Karma updated
If you are using WordPress as your server-based blogging software, you need to be running the free Spam Karma plugin. A new version is out (2.2) and works better than ever.
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ClustrMaps
It’s a small world after all. Every once in awhile a web 2.0 technology, website, or service makes me exclaim loudly and almost (or actually) fall out of my chair. ClustrMaps is the cause today. The map below shows the locations of over 200 different people who have visited my blog in the last 24…
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In praise of Spam Karma
Spam Karma 2 is an outstanding plug-in for WordPress I regard as priceless. (It is in fact, free.) It is sad so many people (apparently) find it productive to spend their time figuring out ways to fill email inboxes with spam as well as blog comment databases. These people really should get a life….. Thanks…
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WordPress backup
I have successfully backed up my wordpress blog using phpMyAdmin, something I’ve needed to do for quite awhile. That process, although “point and click,” was not as simple as I would prefer. So, as a result, I downloaded and installed Scott Merrill’s free WordPress backup plug-in. It works like a champ and was a cinch…
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Free wordpress blogging options
WordPress is free, open source, and the best blogging software option I have used personally to date. Blogger is very user-friendly and quick to use, but it does not currently directly support categories (really an essential for most blogs) or separate RSS feeds for different categories. If you podcast (as I do) or might in…
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Free WordPress blogs for education
Edublogs.org has defined its free blogging services as being for “education professionals,” and setup Learnerblogs.org for free K-12 student blogs and Uniblogs.org for free university student blogs. The great thing about all these free blogging services is that they use WordPress. For my winter term classes, I am probably going to have one use Blogger…
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Linux and WordPress
I have descended to a new depth (or height I guess, depending on your perspective) of geekdom this weekend, and I give all the credit to my friend Miguel Guhlin! I both want and need to setup an intel-based computer (a new fast Dell actually) at work with the Linux operating system, and everything required…
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WordPress themes
Friend and technology guru Miguel Guhlin pointed me to Alex King’s great website for WordPress themes tonight. After visiting the link, select a theme with the popup window in the upper right corner to view it, the download link for that theme is to the right of the popup menu. Huge selection. The one that…
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Blog post daylight savings time issue resolved
Quirkly issue that cropped up this weekend when we fell back 1 hour for daylight savings time. I posted content using Ecto as usual to my blog, but mysteriously the posts would not appear. I finally figured out the time was an hour off, so the post wasn’t being shown by the WordPress server software…
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Blog software comparison chart
The Blog software comparison chart that accompanies the article “Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?” by Susannah Gardner is a great reference source on blogging tools. I currently use WordPress as my primary blogging tool, but also use Blogger for some team blogs and several podcast feeds I maintain. One of…