WordPress 3.1 was released todayand it includes a bunch of nice improvements. The admin bar is very useful, however for some sites you might not want it showing up for all users. You can disable the admin bar from showing up on a user-by-user basis by editing your user preferences (see below). However, this requires [...]
BlinkTag team member Caroline Dickie recently made a series of short screencasts for 511 Contra Costa on a variety of topics related to using the WordPress admin panel. These will be useful for anyone who is new to WordPress. Adding Tags to a WordPress Post Adding Links to a WordPress Post Adding a BlockQuote to [...]
Update: WordPress released an updated PubSubHubbub plugin called PushPress that actually makes your site the PuSH hub, so this is a better choice than the plugin I linked to below. Google just announced support for PubSubHubbub (PuSH) in Google Reader. With PubSubHubbub, new posts show up nearly instantly in Google Reader instead of up to [...]
Its been a day since Google Buzz launched publicly, but given that it works inside of gmail, there is already a huge user base. You might have a “Digg This” or “Tweet This” button on your blog or site, but now you need a “Buzz This” button. TechCrunch created their own “Buzz it” button and [...]
A while ago I posted to my personal blog the instructions for pushing nightly backups of all files and databases to Amazon S3. This has proven to be a fairly popular post. At BlinkTag, we’ve used various versions of this script to help most of our clients make nightly backups. In several instances, this has [...]
Recently we’ve helped a few of our clients move wordpress installations between domain names. This is a fairly easy process except that links that were made inside of posts, such as links to other posts, pages and images hosted on the site are likely to break. Also, if you change permalinks around a lot or [...]
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