Careers in New Media and Podcasting

I was having a difficult time releasing my latest gardening podcast last night. The PowerPress plugin I use from Blubrry.com was silly refusing to accept a podcast enclosure link. I could past in the URL of the media file, click verify to assure the file existed and press Update on the WordPress post, but once that [...]

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Just in time for WordPress Wednesday. Take some time to update your WordPress installs as well as your plugins. WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release Posted January 3, 2012 by Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases,Security. WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting [...]

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You may have noticed here that I sometimes like to use typographical elements — like the ?, ! and @ – as graphic elements in a blog post. Rather than go through the trouble of creating a JPEG, uploading it to the site and then linking it in with the IMG tag, I use this [...]

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? I get a lot of questions every day and here is a one from today… Q: Seth Godin uses TypePad. Is WordPress hyped VS a Reg. Website and using Typepad as your blog platform? I like WP but seems like it has to be watched like a hawk for it not to freeze up [...]

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? I get a lot of questions every day and here is a one from today… Q: How do I easily backup my WordPress database (the file that holds all your posts, comments, etc). Why should you backup your WordPress Database? If not, am I in danger of losing all my blog posts due to [...]

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? I get a lot of questions every day and here is a one from today… Q: How do I set up a WordPress or WordPress.com blog to use a static page as the opening screen instead of a list of blog posts? A: I first turned to the WordPress Codex to give me some [...]

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I have been blogging for a long time, even before there were any blogging services to help out with the process. I used to edit a text file that automatically loaded into my home page in an early proto-blog experiment. When Blogger.com came along, I took too it immediately. It simplified things a lot and [...]

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(Update 12/19/2009 – 1341 PST – Received links on how to export and import database into new 5.0 version of the database. Working with some knowledgeable others to help me do the process.) (Update 12/19/2009 – 1024 PST – Looks as if my main database is still in mySQL 4.0 format although GoDaddy support 5.0. [...]

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I received a WordPress emergency email from a friend/client last night and I wanted to share both the problem, and the solution, with you. Now, I am far from a WordPress expert, but having faced some issues myself, her problem was one that I could solve. The Problem My friend was trying to modify an [...]

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