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Jon on February 4th, 2012

Well I don’t have time to write about it now, but here is a very useful site I just read about security plugins for wordpress: http://diyblog.org/article/how-to-secure-wordpress/

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Jon on January 30th, 2012

So… I needed to redirect my main feed, my comments feed, and two category feeds each to different feedburner feeds. (I am talking about a self-hosted WordPress site.) There is a plugin that automatically directs your main and comments feeds, but that didn’t meet my needs. (You can find that plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-setting/) If like [...]

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Jon on October 25th, 2009

I noticed on my wordpress blog that the RSS widgets were really, really slow to update. I wanted a news section or to display articles from one of my other sites but they took so long! Here is the solution: The default frequency with which the RSS widget updates is apparently every 12 hours (http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2009/08/04/fix-the-rss-update-time-on-the-wordpress-rss-widget). [...]

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Jon on October 23rd, 2009

As you learn about blogging and managing websites you will soon discover that there are a lot of sites out there that show your site within what is called a frame. Some news sites do that. If you see a tool bar at the top of the page over your site, it is probably inside [...]

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Jon on October 22nd, 2009

Eventually I will go through systematically how I set up a WordPress blog, but for now I’m just going to start documenting the various things I have to overcome as I manage my sites. One thing you will find on your WordPress site is that many of the themes you will use (all?) will automatically [...]

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