Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

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 [...]

When I first began to host my own blogs, learning about FTP and phpMyAdmin, I was extremely intimidated. But I am more comfortable tinkering in the database files, and have discovered how powerful the phpMyAdmin software truly is. It is important, if you are going to be a blog owner hosting your websites on your [...]

There’s a very good post I found by Ruhani Rabin about How To Prevent Your WordPress From Being Hacked. It’s got excellent information that every blog writer should know. Here are a few relevant things: Rename the administrative account: You can do this in the MySQL command-line client with a command like View Code SQLupdate [...]

Some WordPress themes have no time stamp in the design. A time stamp is the date and time you publish your blog post, and it usually shows up beneath the title of your post after it’s published on the blog. Most blog themes do have this feature, but not all. This theme I am currently [...]

The latest version of WordPress, the much-acclaimed and much-publicized version 2.7, is finally available to the general public. I’ve been a WordPress user for over a year now, and I’ve suffered through six or seven upgrades to the software. I REALLY hope this is the last upgrade for a while. It has become quite a [...]

In my searching for some new themes for my blogs, I came across a a terrific tutorial about how to create your own WordPress blog! It’s How To Create Themes From Scratch. The tutorial is done by Kailoon, whose art and design I’ve admired recently. He has written a very comprehensive tutorial (he is self-taught [...]