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WordPress

We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set “utf8″ and the latter using “latin1.”
When our technical people tried using WordPress’ default character set in [...]

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When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following:
Blog Stats
• 3,000 visits
or worse,
Blog Stats
• 3,000 hits
without any additional information, I start asking: “What exactly does that mean?”
If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information.
I know this may be hard to [...]

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Working and WordPress-ing

How to blog at WordPress.com

by Romy on November 11, 2009

in Blog, WordPress

Last September, I signed up for a free account at WordPress.com so I would know how it is to operate in a WP-hosted blogging environment.
After seven weeks, I have written more than 20 articles mainly tutorials on how to blog at WordPress.com. Above is a screenshot of one of my more popular articles at [...]

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WP Twitter authorization

Tweeting from your WP blog

by Romy on October 22, 2009

in Blog, WordPress

If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account.
Each WP post that [...]

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I am surprised to see a number of my friends’ blogs using the ready-to-use sectional links on the sidebar of their blogs like calendar (useless for new or not frequently updated blogs), archives, etc. when they have so much to display.
Either they don’t have time to explore the functionalities offered by WordPress.com to [...]

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Last month, we wrote Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond. If you haven’t upgraded yet, then this article from the official WordPress blog site should serve another warning.
The article is titled How to Keep WordPress Secure which I thought is very mildly titled considering its content. The article reported:
Right now there [...]

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