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Category: Computers

Received an email from site5.com tech support:

I received an email from site5.com’s tech support this morning, titled: Scheduled Maintenance Notification. Fighting back tears of joy and relief, I opened it and noted it warned of IMAP irregularities to be expected due to server upgrades. It contained

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The future of WordPress is 2.1

And it looks good! As of this post it’s around 50% done (I prefer to think of that as half-full, thankyouverymuch). I have been testing the alpha and love it. Often when answering questions about WP I find myself writing

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WordPress theme: Corporate Slave

Here is a newsletter-style 2-column with sidebar theme for WordPress which allows some control over which categories are displayed in each column. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh for user-friendliness. This theme is a modified version of Corporate

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Network Solutions – yet more Customer Support tragedies

What’s the biggest nightmare of anyone with a website? When you go to it and nothing is there. It’s gone, no sign of it. Not unlike driving to your business and finding an empty lot. With no signs. Well, this

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WordPress Tools and Resources

Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the

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WordPress Troubleshooting: Finished installation and it doesn’t work!

This article was inspired by the fact that WordPress downloads recently passed the 1,000,000 mark. There are some very common problems that pop-up frequently on the WordPress Support Forums that can stop an installation dead in it’s tracks. This is

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Guide to using the WordPress Support Forums

Which of the following is true? The WordPress Support Forums can be a wonderful resource, a gold mine of wisdom and technical expertise, with quick, salient responses that get me right back on track… The WordPress Support Forums can be

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Quick look at WordPress issues in June:

Shortstat: There's an issue with shortstat 1.3 and WordPress 2.0.x. Try this fix: I was having the same trouble with logging not occurring. is_admin_page()* was returning true for non-admin pages. I just commented that line out, and it’s working for

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About Me widget for WordPress

Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ‘seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me’ to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget

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WordPress Troubleshooting: What happened to my Sidebar??

This is one of the most common questions asked in the WordPress Support Forum. From "Where did my sidebar go?" to "Why is my sidebar at the bottom of my page?"…  The most common cause I see is when someone

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