I took the jump and have upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. On the outside, there aren’t any visible differences. Well, if you see any bugs, let me know. The admin side however is completely re-vamped and so nice!

There are so may things to talk about that I just don’t have time right now to go through them all. From the revamped admin menu to the simplified post screen it’s just so much cleaner. The ability to add media such as video and audio is also a great addition. I just love this!

It seems that something or someone found a hole one in one of my Wordpress installs and started sending out spam early this morning. My host then shut me down completely and this site was suspended for several hours on Sunday because I was spamming.

We are back up and running now but not out of the woods. I sincerely apologize to anyone who feels that I spammed them.  I didn’t.  I don’t really know what happened but I HOPE it’s all better now.

I took the jump to Wordpress 2.3 tonight and I don’t seem to see any issues.  Do you see any?  If you do, post them below or email them to me.

The upgrade was painless and all my Ultimate Tag Warrior tags imported beautifully.  Thanks to LifeSpy for the run down on how-to get them converted.

I had to upgrade 3 or 4 plugins too but nothing major.

Everything looks like it went smoothly.  Sweet!

Apple’s Webkit is being built into all sort of Mac applications, however they all seem to share data and I don’t feel they should.

As an example, if you log into your Google account in Safari, Shiira is also logged in. And it doesn’t stop there. GCal, CSSEdit and Journler all use webkit too so you are automatically logged into your Google account.

This isn’t just a Google thing either. Works with Yahoo mail, Wordpress blogs and any site that has a checkbox for “remember me.”

This is quite possibly the greatest plugin ever!* You can now get the Made on a Mac Wordpress plugin that will automatically insert a button to your blog that states your blog was made on a Mac. How cool is that?!

The initial release is extremely basic. Just install it and enable it. That’s all. It hooks into Worpress via the wp_meta function and will place the button after that information. Usually that’s in the sidebar where it says Meta. If you don’t have that function in your theme, which isn’t completely out of the ordinary, you can manually add some code in. Just see the install page.

I’ve been testing and testing site stats ever since Mint 2 came out. I didn’t really want to pay for the upgrade so I ran though a few different services and put them though the tests. I was looking for a quick way to access my visitor stats and in the end, Mint is the best stats program I can find.

If you didn’t know, today is Blog Backup Day. The 13th of every month is the one day that you should take a few minutes and backup your blog posts in case something bad happens. What if the database server decides to crash tomorrow? Then what?!

I started Blog Backup Day in hopes to encourage other blog authors to save their data. You never know when a hosting error or hacker will pop up. There is nothing worse for a blogger than realizing that your past year (or more) worth of blog posts are simply gone.

I’ve been wanting to upgrade Blog on a Stick to Wordpress 2.2 for so long. But there have always been so many un-answered questions. Ok, one one main one; “Will Ultimate Tag Warrior convert over properly?” Without a defiant answer, I wouldn’t upgrade. Until tonight.

I’m not sure why, but I was in a crazy mood to just start upgrading blogs. I started with my wife’s blog which was simple. Then to another blog that gave me hell for unknown reasons. Then I thought, what the heck, and upgraded this one too.

I read the SEO Egghead site and caught a post about a new book they were publishing titled Search Engine Optimization with PHP. Very interested in both topics, I got a copy of the book. While paging though it, I was shocked to see a page all about the Chicklet Creator Wordpress plugin!! How exciting is that? I’m published!

Now, I haven’t read the book yet, but since I’m in it, it has to be good. Right?

You can get your copy of Search Engine Optimization with PHP on Amazon today. From what I’ve paged though, it looks like it should be a great read.

Not long ago I was introduced to AuctionAds, a systems that displays Ebay ads in a nice and clean format on blogs. The upside is that they look great, are easy to use and give another form of monetization abilities to a blog. The downside was that they were not content specific.

There is an article out there on how to Make Auction Ads Contextual but it works with the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. What I was looking for was a way to tie the ads into the categories, so I coded it out. Here is how you can customize your AuctionAds to be category specific with Wordpress.