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WordPress 3.0.4 Released, Critical Security Update
WordPress Consider this proof security doesn’t take a holiday. Yesterday Automattic announced the release of WordPress 3.0.4, and it is considered both a critical and a mandatory upgrade. According to the announcement, a security flaw was found in KSES, the system WordPress uses to sanitize the content of posts and other HTML submissions. It would enable an attacker to add code to the WordPress site, possibly enabling it to launch client-side code ...
Continue reading5 Content Steps to Take For the New Year
Blogging As we approach Christmas and the rest of the holiday season, many are already starting to look toward the new year and finding ways that they can improve their blog. Though I don’t typically like New Year’s resolutions, they seem to be mostly self-defeating, it is a great time to look at what you did or didn’t do over the past year and how you can improve. With that in mind, here are several copyright and content-related steps ...
Continue readingIs Blogging Really on the Decline?
Blogging An article on Mashable today discussed a study by Pew Internet that broke down the online activities by age groups, starting with as young as 18 and working up to 74+. Many of the results were not surprising. Email was an almost uniform activity across every age group, as were searching and getting news online. Also, younger individuals were more likely to play games online, IM and use social networks while their slightly older cohorts were more ...
Continue readingOpen Site Explorer: User-Friendly SEO Analysis
Search Engine Optimisation When it comes to learning about your site’s SEO, there are a slew of great tools out there that can provide link lists, keyword analysis and much more. The problem with most of these tools is that they aren’t exactly clear and easy to understand, especially for those who are new to the concepts and terminology. For new bloggers, the prospect of wading through Excel spreadsheets filled with links is daunting and, given how difficult ...
Continue readingWordPress 3.0.2 Released – Updated Highly Recommended
WordPress, WordPress Themes If you are a WordPress user, you’ve likely noticed that you’ve been getting update notifications for your site(s) telling you that WordPress 3.0.2 has been released. If you haven’t updated your installation yet, it’s best to get on top of it as soon as possible. Not only is the update only a minor security release, meaning it shouldn’t affect any plugins, themes, or other elements of your site, but it fixes a rare ...
Continue reading6 Blogging Tools I’m Thankful For this Thanksgiving
Software & Programs, WordPress Like most bloggers, I’m very proud at what I’ve been able to do over the years but I also ahve to admit that there is pretty much no way I would have been able to do much of anything without the efforts of others, especially those who make their work freely available for people like us to use. Unless you’re able to build your site management software, code your theme from scratch and create all of the tools you use, you’re standing on ...
Continue readingGoogle Apps Grows, Adds More Services
Productivity, Reviews Last month I posted an article entitled “6 Reasons to Get Google Apps for Your Domain Today” that outlined some of the biggest and most important reasons for getting Google Apps for your site, no mater how big or small. However, earlier this week, added several more reasons to consider the move. Google added a whopping 60 new applications to the system, increasing the number of available apps available ten-fold. For the first time, ...
Continue readingMy 5 Biggest Blogging Blunders
Blogging Recently I posed an article about the 5 mistakes every blogger will make at some point. For the most part, they were all fairly minor mistakes, in part because they are so common, but they are all also mistakes that one’s handling of could prove far more damaging than the error itself. Still, I wouldn’t call any of them fatal or even blog-changing errors, just trials that every blogger has to go through at some point. But that raises ...
Continue reading5 Reasons to Attending Blogging (and Other) Conferences
Blogging It’s a known fact that conferences can be expensive. Not only do you have the cost of registration and travel, but also the expense of time away from your work, family and social life at home. If you are traveling to another city for a major multi-day conference you can easily expect to spend several thousand dollars in travel costs and miss at least a week of your normal life. As great of a time as it might be, it can be hard to justify ...
Continue reading6 Reasons to Get Google Apps For Your Domain Today
Productivity If you have your own domain, you probably have, or at least should have your own email address at your domain. But as great as having your own “.com” is, if you prefer Gmail over a traditional email client or your host’s default webmail interface, there is no easy and elegant way to use your Gmail as your email client. However, Google Apps solves this problem by actually having Google host your email, giving you the features ...
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