As you may (or may not) know, LiveUniverse is a company that provides the ability for website owners (ie; me) to put ads on their site, and make money from it. Rather than going out and trying to sell ads yourself, LiveUniverse sells them for you, and pays you when you put them on [...]
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New Design
November 13th, 2008
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I got tired of the old design for this site, so I updated to a new theme. Still modifying it completely, but here it is.
Also, I had to move the photos from the old gallery into a WordPress powered one, which was a pain. So, while the images now have the ability to [...]
WordPress 2.6.2 Available
September 9th, 2008
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If you’re like me, and run a bunch of WordPress sites, you get annoyed when a new release is available, mainly because it takes so long to upload all of the files. Also, if you’ve modified any of the core code, you don’t want to have to re-do that (also, like me.)
I’ve gone through [...]
The Importance of Backing Up Your Site
July 25th, 2008
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Working for a fairly large webhost, I often see people who got “hacked”, and their websites destroyed. I often laugh, because people don’t often get “hacked”, but often simply have their password guessed, which gives the “hacker” full access to your site, account, and files.
98% of the time, that’s the case. Given, there’s [...]
Why upgrading WordPress is so important.
May 2nd, 2008
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It seems like every other week, WordPress releases a new version of their awesome software. That’s a good thing, unless you run multiple websites using WordPress.
If you’re in that boat, upgrading all of your WordPress sites might be a pain in the butt, but it’s extremely important to do so.
The main reason for these [...]
Creating WordPress Themes
October 19th, 2007
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Don’t get me wrong, creating WordPress themes is not for the faint of heart, nor for the casual blogger who doesn’t really have a good grasp on developing websites. However, if you know your way around PHP and basic HTML, you should have no issues creating your own theme, or adapting a website into [...]
WordPress Plugins and Themes
October 10th, 2007
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Now that I’ve covered Getting Started, and the Admin Panel, we can move on to some other WordPress related things, namely Themes and Plugins. Let’s start with Themes, as that’s going to impact your WordPress application the most.
A “theme” is really just a design for your site. It gives your site that “customized” [...]
