Emily from How to Blog on June 13th, 2009

Just a quick note to let everyone know that WordPress 2.8 is now available.
As a reminder, I always advise readers to wait just a few days before upgrading, as sometimes WP has a habit of releasing an update that breaks things and requires you to install yet another update shortly after that to fix everything…in [...]

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Emily from How to Blog on May 29th, 2009

I frequently receive email from readers of How to Blog, sometimes thanking me and other times with blogging questions that they have which they hope that I can answer. In many of the latter cases, I am able to answer their questions and get them back happily blogging. But there are times when [...]

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Can you help my reader, Steven, who wrote in to me with the following problem?
I have recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1 from 2.6.
I was creating pages with wp 2.6. Underneath the post title was displayed the “url” or permalink, and I could edit and customize it any way I liked.
Now with wp 2.7.1, [...]

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Emily from How to Blog on May 20th, 2009

So I realized that I am doing all of this research for my work and that I’m taking a lot of notes….and that these notes would be helpful to other bloggers - doh! I had forgotten how this blog originated in the first place and am now getting back to my roots and will [...]

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Emily from How to Blog on April 19th, 2009

As you can see, it has been quite a while since I last posted. I apologize for that profusely, but it is not without good reason. I had originally posted a whole long personal story about the some of the personal hardships I’d been through in the past couple of years, but regretted [...]

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