WordPress 2.9

Another chic WordPress release.   One of the reasons I trust WordPress to store my writing (which is rare and precious these days) is the huge community that supports it.  Fortunately, the days of a lone geek in his mama's basement are long past for WordPress.   In this release there were over 4001 contributors! So, to the new goodies in this version: image editor in the media module (as … [Read more...]

How to Prepare Your Blog for Self-hosted WordPress

I've spent the last two weeks doing a lot of research on this topic for a couple reasons, not the least of which are: 1.  An established blog needs to keep its google 'juice' and page rank. 2.  Us bloggers, like to keep our readers, not confuse them with new addresses and redirects and warning pages. 3.  We also like to keep our FEED readers/ subscribers. 4.  We also like to have a … [Read more...]