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Appearances can be deceiving-Things I’ve learned about WordPress 3.0

by Tris Hussey on March 7, 2010 · 5 comments

in Books, Using WordPress, WordPress

Did you hear that sound? That low, thunking kind of sound? Yeah that’s the sound of a writer working on a book about WordPress banging their head against a wall (or desk). In case you didn’t know, book publishing timelines are rather long. Not as long as say, Microsoft OS releases, but typically longer than the release schedule for WordPress. Using WordPress is slated to be release in July (feel free to pre-order now), and in case you hadn’t looked at a calendar it’s March and my first draft of [...]

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Missed Schedules, Other Not-So-Fun Parts of WordPress, and How to Fix Them

by Tris Hussey on February 11, 2010 · 1 comment

in Books, Using WordPress, WordPress

There’s nothing like being a WordPress user who’s supposed to know what’s what and not being able to get a basic thing like posting through a blog editor to work consistently. Since WP 2.9.1 came out I’ve had a helluva time with WordPress on DreamHost. I get strange 404 not found errors and when I’m posting remotely either a) all of the time or b) when planets in a distant as yet unknown galaxy align I get the charming “Missed Schedule” error.
Since, as you might gather I’d rather figure this [...]

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Bringing The WordPress One Minute Podcast Over Here

by Tris Hussey on February 7, 2010 · 1 comment

in Books, Shows and Podcasts, Using WordPress, WordPress

Last Fall I started doing a WordPress One Minute Podcast and put 11 episodes in the can before I got busy and stopped (let’s call it “on hiatus”). Since I’m working on Using WordPress right now, I thought I’d bring the episodes over here.
Here is the episode list and you can download all the episodes below:

Ep 1: Pasting from Word
Ep 2: Disable the default admin account
Ep 3: Turbo-charge admin panels
Ep 4: WP.com vs WP.org
Ep 5: Press this bookmarklet
Ep 6: Sidebar widgets
Ep 7: CPanel file manager
Ep 8: Pretty Permalinks
Ep 9: Upgrading [...]

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