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» Wordpress Blog Security Measures

May 6th, 2008 Sammy Russo

Here area a few tips and tricks to keeping your Wordpress blog or Wordpress CMS safe and secure. There are plenty of other tactics out there to take for increased security but these will get you started and should be considered best practice.

» Wordpress.com Banned by International Judge

April 18th, 2008 Sammy Russo

So according to this post by Lorelle from Wordpress, a judge in Brazil is banning / blocking ALL WordPress.com blogs regardless of language because some idiot posted a YouTube video of a couple of having sex.

The material in question violates WordPress.com Terms of Service (if it doesn’t.. it should.. Im not a wordpress.com user so I’ve never read their TOS).

So Lorelle is asking.. why aren’t more people talking / blogging about the issue at hand? Why does it seem that no one is concerned?

My first question isn’t why aren’t people concerned.. my first question is… how did YouTube allow this video to go live in the first place? I’m almost certain adult content is not allowed on YouTube. So what’s up with that.

So why not ban YouTube instead? Right! Like that would ever happen. If I were the lawyers for WordPress.com.. I’d be appealing this and drag Google into it because that’s where the problem started.

To speculate on why more people aren’t blogging about it, my guess would be that a lot of WordPress.com users are probably saying to themselves.. so what if I can’t reach Brazil? Or maybe people view it like spam and blacklists.. use a free product and deal with being at the mercey of what others around you do. It’s guilt by association.

My 2 cents!

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» Rafting.com Redesigned and Built in Wordpress

March 27th, 2008 Sammy Russo

I’ve been the webmaster for Rafting.com since 2001 when we built the site out for the very first time. Finally seven years later, our virtual web team devised a plan to redesign the site. We decided to build it using Wordpress as CMS (content management system).

» Desktop Blogging Software Review: BlogJet

March 7th, 2008 Sammy Russo

This is a review of the BlogJet Software. In reviewing this software I used it to publish several posts to various blogs.

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» GoDaddy Domains

March 6th, 2008 Sammy Russo

I buy all my domain names at GoDaddy.com. Why? Because they have the lowest prices on the internet for domain purchases, transfers and renewals. It just seems silly to me to buy them any where else. They also give you complete DNS control.

The reason I’m posting this is because I everyday I come across folks who have now idea about GoDaddy and their extremely affordable domain prices..

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» Have Code Your Way in the Wordpress Editor

February 28th, 2008 Sammy Russo

So I was half way done building out a Wordpress CMS website in which I was using div class tags and inline styles inside the editor. What I soon realized is that Wordpress was removing all of code and breaking my pages. So I searched the Wordpress forums and sure enough I wasn’t alone.

» Syndicate RSS Feeds CaRP Software from Gecko Tribe

February 24th, 2008 Sammy Russo

Looking for a super easy way to sydicate headlines and content onto your blog or PHP website without using a java script. Check out CaRP by Gecko Tribe.

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» Test BlogDesk

February 22nd, 2008 Sammy Russo

Today I’m testing BlogDesk. So far I like it… it gives me pretty much all the control I need as if I were in the Admin Panel.

I manually added a category via the interface so we’ll be testing whether or not we can create categories.

Here I’ve inserted a picture and you can adjust things in a code editor.

Now the moment of truth.. lets publish and see what happens

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» Schedule Wordpress Posts to Publish in the Future

February 9th, 2008 Sammy Russo

A client emailed me the other day and asked.. “how do a schedule posts to publish in the future”? Hm, I thought… this is new.. never been asked this question before. So I went looking.. I knew Wordpress could do it.. I just never had a need for it so I was unaware.

» Upgrading Wordpress Using Dreamweaver

January 6th, 2008 Sammy Russo

Dreamweaver is my primary web development tool… I use it for writing code and for FTP. There are a lot of folks out there who swear up and down that Dreamweaver FTP is aweful. Personally I love it and I’ve never, ever had an issue. Sometimes I just need to things different.

Here it goes Read more…

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