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3 Advantages of Wordpress Hosting

September 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments

wordpress-logo-eclipseAnd now for a word from our supporters: Getting a website and signing up for web hosting are time-consuming activities that often require some skill and knowledge in programming and HTML, hypertext markup language, the computer code underlying the web.…

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SQT: Wordpress Image Uploader

July 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Saturday Quick Tip logoIf, like me, you’ve upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress for your blog, then you will no doubt have used the spiffy new image uploader. Unless you don’t have a Wordpres blog or post images, of course. Anyway, in…

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SQT: Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid

June 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Saturday Quick Tip logoWhen trying to reset your Wordpress blog password, have you seen the following message?

Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.

Apparently, it’s a bug in Wordpress 2.5.1, according to Brian Turner. Basically, it means that password recovery won’t always…

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Beating the Scraper Caper

June 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments

ScrapersI’ve been running websites since 1996. My first one was on one of those Freenet systems at a US university that you could only access with the Lynx text-only browser using a telnet connection, another was on webspace provided with…

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SQT: Make Friends with Auntie Spam

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Saturday Quick Tip logoThe Auntie Spam Greasemonkey script for Firefox makes handling your Akismet spam folders so much easier than viewing them in native format.

The new version even groups spam comments by IP address and tells you how many have been submitted from specific IP…

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