Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I’m on a roll! You can never have too many themes for your blog, now can you? This one is WPRex – free wordpress themes. It touts itself as the “Best Free WordPress Themes For Free.” The themes are very nice. Many of them are the popular magazine style. I rather like the Elegant News [...]

Oh my word. LOL. There’s another update!!! WordPress users, you’ve probably seen the little notification in your blog dashboard. WordPress 3.0.1 is out. Looks like it’s a maintenance upgrade, taking care of a bunch of issues missed in the last upgrade. I love WP, I really do. It is GREAT. But the updates keep me [...]

Well, I took the plunge. To WordPress 3.0. For you WordPress newbies out there, I remember the olden days, back… Ohhhh… TWO years ago before WP incorporated the automatic upgrade feature. Back then, we used to have to update our blogs manually. As in SAVE everything first. As in upload (via FTP) all the new [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had WordPress-Update-Disease. I’m tired of updating WordPress all the time! :-p Each new version is an improvement, so that’s a plus…. but I don’t want my WP to be a Swiss Army knife of blogging platforms. Unless there’s a necessary security update, I’m really happy with what I [...]

There was some problem with the new WordPress 2.9 release that occurred a few weeks ago: complaints were rolling in that scheduled posts were not publishing. I didn’t experience the problem (I hadn’t any scheduled posts), so I don’t know if the issue affected any of my blogs. But the WordPress dudes have solved the [...]

Believe it or not (!!), I’ve started up some new blogs! So I spent quite a few hours looking over my options. I checked out Drupal, Joomla, and b2evolution platforms for possible choices… but Drupal was difficult to manage and had very limited choices. Joomla looked too complex, and b2evolution was too plain. So I [...]