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Archive for April, 2008

The Fix: Duplicate Post Titles Broke My Blog!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in The Fix, WordPress, WordPress Errors | No Comments »

Thank you so much for your help the other night-- it worked! What a great, simple solution! Your help was amazing and very timely! It was so clear and useful, especially because of the screenshots and step-by-step directions you sent ...

Review: Dave’s Online Videos

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Everything Else | No Comments »

After seeing one of Dave's screencast I was intrigued to join his online video service and watch him explain a few of his concepts. Most of these topics lead to a series of videos that can add up to a ...

Getting WordPress To Work (My Hosting Gripes)

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in Blogging 101, Review, WordPress, WordPress Hosting | No Comments »

In the past week I have pondered the question: "How much time is too much time to spend getting something to work?" It seems like I have spent most of the week trying to get things to work, most of ...

More Lively Video Options For Your Products

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Artists & Artisans, Flickr | No Comments »

Tire of boring old galleries? Animoto offers easy to make, free 30-second videos to display your pictures in a very engaging way. You will need about 15 photos to create a video. These photos can be easily pulled from online ...

Flickr Video: Turn That Frown Upside Down!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Artists & Artisans, Flickr, Review | 2 Comments »

Flickr video launched a few days ago and I didn't look into it beyond noticing the sleek integration and video quality. Compared to YouTube, it's outstanding! Some people are mad. I don't understand why. The new video-sharing feature lets Flickr 'Pro' users ...

The Fix: Why are these bad blogs linking to me?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Spam, The Fix | No Comments »

Written on March 16, 2008 at 3:51 p.m. Today I posted an article in an unpublished blog and got a trackback spam within 60 seconds. What is a Trackback or Pingback spam? It is a notification that another blogger has linked ...

Priority No. 1: Upgrade Your WordPress Installation

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Spam, The Fix, WordPress | No Comments »

I have been upgrading blogs to WordPress 2.5 at the rate of 3-4 per day. It's not that it takes THAT long to do. It's just that I have other things to do. :) So this little blog only got ...

246 scheduled posts

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Programming, WordPress | 2 Comments »

I don't know about you, but I kind of like to just push a button and make magical things happen. With my clients in mind I created a system that auto populates WordPress with content aggregated from RSS, CSV or ...