Spam is a problem that plagues any resource on the Internet that allows any kind of user input. The unscrupulous denizens of the Web are constantly on the look out for more ways to include profitable URLs in accessible locations on the Net and as the awareness and popularity of blogging...
Wordpress is used not only as a vehicle for transferring many words but also as the delivery system for all kinds of other content. Blogging no longer operates within the confines of a text-based medium and many people are hard at work trying to make the inclusion of other mediums as simple as...
One of the most important aspects of establishing your very own Wordpress installation is the ‘where’ part of that question. Unless you’re lucky enough to have some server class machines hanging around your house connected to a dedicated and blazing fast connection, it’s going to be a...
One of the more rewarding parts about blogging is when people spend the time to leave comments. This is made more flattering when those comments are well thought out and attributable to a person within the blogging community known for their knowledge or contributions to a particular area of...
Once you’ve got the hang of using the Wordpress administrator dashboard for doing most tasks you’re going to change or expand that functionality. There are an astonishing number of plugins available that can take care of much of the dirty work of administering your site directly from the...
One of the utmost concerns among those of us running web applications on the web that are always available should be security. Whether or not you have personal data in your blog is immaterial. A compromised site can be used as a jumping off point for many other types of malicious behavior. Very...
Letting the world know about your blog is one of the trickier aspects of starting a new blog or getting people notice one that you’ve been working on. Google is the most obvious target for these efforts as it dominates the search market and is the default search engine for popular browsers...