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WordPress.org has just released a security update available for install through your WordPress dashboard or by downloading and installing the zip file manually. The update is primarily targeted for WordPress sites that allow user signups and the new network features and addresses a problem where specific code can be run to inflate the user rights […]

Google is expanding its use of multi first from same site results when it returns listings and this may be forcing your site off the first page or deeper into the index. The way this new feature works is that when someone makes a search on Google a new algorithm will decide which result is […]

Something that is probably not well known is that Google has started to take into account the speed at which a site loads in their page rank.  At this point about 1% of sites in their US English Search listings have had this new algorithm applied to search results and if your visitors are from […]

I  just saw an image tweeted by Tim Storm of FatWallet.com showing their new server rack and thought it would a good time to think about the requirements of hosting a high traffic website verses a shared account that most people or businesses start off with. The fact is your site may never need a […]

When you are developing or redesigning a wordpress theme there are times that you want to show different amounts of content to your visitor. Every time that a webpage is generated from wordpress content you are making use of the Loop.  The Loop on your front or index.php page may show 10 full posts or […]

As a designer you may depend on your Web Host to setup and manage the servers and software that runs the backend of your website but there are ways you can replicate much of what you need on your home or work computer to allow you to prototype changes locally and keep your main site […]

Selling personal data is a long time method of generating secondary income for businesses. Realtors, Telephone Companies, Banks and Credit Card Companies and even local pizza places that collect information about their customers sell lists of directory and in depth information without our realizing. Social Networks are no stranger to collecting and releasing this same […]

For those of us that like to tweet all day but sometimes like to contribute to a third party website the ease of loggin using your twitter account is somewhat attractive.  Many sites use this feature just to verify you for commenting but any site can provide this connectivity between your accounts and provide more […]

I have been using the new twitter design on one of my personal accounts for a few weeks now and some of the features seem good while others seem less then useful. One of the nice things I like is the ability to view twitpic images in the right sidebar rather then jumping into a […]

The WordPress plugin Twitter Tools is one of the most popular plugins and is used by almost every wordpress site out there. It offers the ability to announce new posts on twitter and also retrieve your tweets for display on your WordPress Website. The main reason that most sites use this tool is to attract […]