Category: Blogging

  • Why you should upgrade your WordPress blog

    If you use self-hosted WordPress for your blog and you’re not using the latest version, 2.8.4, you’re running a severe risk of your site security being compromised and even hacked. So do these three things right now: 1. Log in…

  • The changelog imperative

    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…

  • 6 tips for upgrading WordPress

    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…

  • What people said about Posterous

    Do you use Posterous, the free blogging and photo-sharing tool? If you do, why? I just can’t see that I’d use it. I have blogs and a primary domain. I’m already all over the net with services, a few of…

  • Blogging requires personal participation

    Yesterday I led a workshop on blogging in London for the CIPR during which the group spent a bit of time talking about ghost blogging. Scott Adams’ perceptive Dilbert cartoon, first published two years ago, takes an extreme but comical…