Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Yes, WordPress users, believe it or not— there’s another WordPress update. It’s 2.8.1. WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this [...]

I had Bluehost as my web hosting company for a year. I am a professional blogger (that is, I am paid to blog for various articles), and I run a dozen blogs. I need a reliable web host. I DID NOT find Bluehost reliable. I was paying over $100 a year for unending frustrations. Bluehost [...]

I’ve been using the Lijit Search Engine widget for a few of my blogs for a few months now, and I have to say: I LOVE IT! Lijit is a plugin for WordPress, Typepad, and Blogger blogs. Any blogger who writes informatively really should have this widget– Lijit is so impressive and so powerful that [...]

As much as I would just love to keep this to myself (I like to have these things for my own resource), I HAVE GOT to tell you of a stunning collection of WordPress themes. I am awed. I am definitely going to use one of these– the problem is, which one! The site is [...]

WordPress 2.7 is great– so many new functionalities! BUT please– why oh why did they not revise the “revision” capability?! WordPress’ existing Revision feature is like an auto-save feature– it will automatically save your posts as you write them, so that should your computer or software crash, you have a current copy of what you’re [...]

To the non-blogger, that title may look strange indeed… I’m referring to Bad Behavior, the WordPress plugin. I installed it. Remember how I lamented my spam problems? How I was inundated with hundreds of spam comments per day? Well, I installed the plugin called Bad Behavior, and LOOK at my spam count for the past [...]