I had neglected my personal blog for a while, and it was waaaay back at WordPress 3.1.2. Yeah, I know it doesn’t seem that far back, but the blog was old enough that it was originally launched on a MySQL 4 database. WordPress 3.2.1 requires MySQL 5, minimum. Making the move involves exporting your MySQL [...]
Take a minute today to upgrade to 3.1.3. A handful of fixes and security improvements have been added to protect your investment in your WordPress website. You can update automatically by going to your Dashboard. Look for “updates” in the upper left corner. For more information about the changes, visit WordPress.org
About halfway through the WordPress class I was teaching last week in Sultan, I realized that for the layperson learning a CMS, even a CMS as user-friendly as WordPress, it might feel as overwhelming as I feel learning TaeKwonDo. Mr. Molley and Mr. Frye at Active Martial Arts in Monroe are great instructors, and they [...]
It is the time of year when annual filers must compile their sales tax data for submittal to the Washington State Department of Revenue. Back in the day, when Pam and I’s kids were small and could not yet talk back, we ran our own e-commerce site on the side selling baby slings. Things were [...]
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The Russians are back!
The comment spam is back. It’s all Russian too. You don’t see it because we don’t approve it. But it is always there waiting for us in the backend of the website. I think I might write a plug-in for WordPress that blocks all Russian comments. It would be a shame, because it is a [...]