Meh. ANOTHER WordPress Update. Aw, COME ON!!!

May 20, 2011 — Mrs. Mecomber
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I saw in my WordPress Dashboard “News” feed that another WordPress update is in the works. Good God, when will this madness end?

It seems like just yesterday that we released WordPress 3.1

Dudes, it WAS just yesterday….. *sigh* Little do they realize that many of us hesitate after a new release, preferring to wait and watch the experts fix the bugs and warn us of problems before updating. But we don’t even have time to do that anymore. As soon as an update is released, there’s another one on the factory belt!

This is getting a little unbearable. I like WordPress and all.. and it’s free so I’m REALLY grateful. But PLEASE. Every couple of months?! We have lives.

P.S. This is not a good time to praise the virtues of Blogger. Cuz I ain’t switching. ;)

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Got Bugs? Scan Your URL

January 18, 2011 — Mrs. Mecomber
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I discovered a great site that will scan your website or blog for malware, exploits, and other nasty vermin: URL Void. It’s great! It’s free to use and it works well.

In this age of profligate hacking, something like this is almost a requirement for any webmaster. I have heard numerous horror stories from my blogging peers that their website had been hacked. Usually, it’s a prank and the webpage displays a “Hacked By” sign with foul language. Sometimes, it’s a little more malicious– a webmaster or blogger may install a plugin or theme or widget that has malicious code in it. This code may spew juice-drying links from your domain, or assault your visitors with filthy popups.

Now you can fight back. :D I’m so grateful to the dudes at URL Void. Thanks for doing this!

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WordPress Themes Site

August 17, 2010 — Mrs. Mecomber

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 and Magnalitus themes. I’ve been searching for a new theme for this blog (I have never found one that I liked *just right*), so I’ll be hunting again, when I have more time.

You can search by color, columns, theme topic, etc. No registration or login is required to download a theme, either (I hate that). Nice themes here, check them out.

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More Good Blogger Templates

August 17, 2010 — Mrs. Mecomber

I’ve been scouring the World Wide Web for Blogger templates, recently. I’ve come across quite a few websites that have extremely classy templates! I’m happy to see that Blogger users have more choices available to them today. When I was with Blogger, 10 years ago now, the templates were horrid, and there were only a dozen or so available. Today, users have taken it on their own to provide some great templates– and most of them are free. Here are some I found:

BTemplates
Blogger Themes
Dante Araujo
Blogcrowds
Instant Shift’s List of 120 of Best Blogger Templates Around

I also have a handful of helpful tutorials for Blogger users at The Older Geek blog, which you may find helpful.

Happy blogging!

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Another- ANOTHER- WordPress Update

August 4, 2010 — Mrs. Mecomber

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 in a tizzy. I have 13 blogs… updating them every couple of weeks is a real pain, especially when they are insignificant kinds of upgrades. Couldn’t they have thoroughly tested 3.0 before issuing it?!

I don’t mean to complain… they WP dudes do a superb job. WP is beautiful stuff. But I am *sigh* tired of updating everything. Again. And again.

Oh well. :D At least they’ve made it easier! :)

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I Survived the Update to 3.0

July 13, 2010 — Mrs. Mecomber

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 files. As in “hold your breath and pray it doesn’t explode” updates. Nothing bad every happened to me, thankfully, (didn’t stop me from making billions of backups, though), but I heard horror stories about folks whose entire blogs self-destructed.

Anyway, it’s easier now. But the old terror still clings as I hit the “upgrade now!” button.

All’s well that ends well. I updated 12 blogs, and all are OK.

Whew.

Oh, and how is WP 3.0?

It’s OK. I don’t see much difference. They added some features that I don’t need, so its not much different besides the light blue color and the fact that my username doesn’t automatically save so I can log in (so I have to type it in each time)> What is up with that, anyway?

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