Business, Communication, Technology
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If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that it’s “enhanced with Apture.” Well, you may not know that, actually. But you will have experienced Apture when you’ve clicked on certain links that show you information as elegant popup screens overlaying what you’re reading on this site instead of taking you away.
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Is Technorati worth anyone’s attention any more? I ask because I no longer have much faith in the accuracy of their data where Technorati’s information about your own site is different depending on where you see it.
Here’s what I mean. This is what Technorati says about this blog in terms of authority and rank:
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About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the look-and-feel of your WordPress site and its functionality without your having to know much about [...]
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A new version of WordPress was released last week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that version, 2.8.5. As always, I followed my 6 tips to upgrading WordPress to ensure a smooth and trouble-free upgrade.
The WordPress developers say that 2.8.5 is a hardening release as it tightens up on some security areas. As with [...]
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I was just studying the stats from Google Analytics that display within my blog’s WordPress admin dashboard, and noticing where visitors tend to come from.
This isn’t geographical so it’s not countries I’m talking about. No, it’s the referring site or place on the web where someone clicked a link that brought them to a [...]
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A shoutout to the developers of the Blubrry Powerpress podcasting plugin for WordPress.
The shoutout is for not only creating a very cool enhancement for Wordpress blogs – if you’re a podcaster with a WordPress blog, this plugin is a must-have – but also for making it easy to understand what’s changed from version to version.
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I upgraded this blog today to WordPress version 2.8.3, the latest version released earlier this week.
For the past few years, I’ve followed a 6-step process whenever I upgrade any of my WordPress blogs. This procedure works well for me and results in upgrade success every time, typically in less than 20 minutes.
It would work [...]
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The fine folks at Apture were kind enough to feature this blog on Friday as their Site of the Week. Thanks!
I’ve been using Apture for the past year since I discovered it being tested on parts of the BBC News site.
What is Apture? It’s a powerful tool that lets visitors to your site discover [...]
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An update to the WordPress platform, version 2.8.2, was issued earlier today that addresses a security issue known as XSS or cross-site scripting.
It’s an unexpected update, given that version 2.8.1 was released less than two weeks ago. But good to see that the community involved in WordPress development is on the case and with [...]
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It’s a bit blurry but there’s no mistaking the youthful Matt Mullenweg pictured at WordCamp UK in Cardiff yesterday.
I took this pic of the WordPress founder on my Nokia N95 8GB at full zoom from my spot at the far end of the meeting room. Not too bad under those circumstances, although more a testament [...]
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