Last week, this website started to give me a blank screen when ever I attempted to login to it via the WordPress dashboard. It was most concerning as aside from this the site appeared to be running fine. I did some digging to figure out why and found it to be a common problem from a few sources that WordPress would do this due to a number of reasons. I modified my … [Read more...]
WordPress.Tweetmeme.com infected with spyware
I stumbled on this site a few weeks back after it picked up http://wordpress.tweetmeme.com which basically collates all the tweets related to wordpress… a great resource for sure. I had this sitting on my IE window today and suddenly it redirected to another location… see the screenshots below. I believe that the advertising network they use for their banner ads is … [Read more...]
WordPress Images and Live Writer
Today I solved the problem I’ve had with Live writer not being able to publish images to my WordPress blog. I’m here in Redmond with other MVPs from around the world and I was talking to Terry – the dude behind WeGotServed… not – that’s not the comedy of “Are You Being Served”, but a Windows Home Server MVP. Terry runs his site on WordPress also. Anyway long … [Read more...]
WordPress for Dummies
Reviewed by Ben Love from Grassroots IT I should know better. I know I should. Or more accurately, I should at least pretend that I know that I should know better. Or something like that. I’m an IT Pro with a dirty little secret. Wanna hear? I’m a sucker for a Dummies Guide. There. I’ve said it. Please don’t judge me. I know I should like mucking around in spec guides, deep … [Read more...]