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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The last couple of times that I tried to update my wordpress theme list, when I click ‘Save’ (or Save and Continue Editing) there is a long wait after which I get presented with a blank page. Upon then checking the post it hasn’t been updated. This is driving me nuts as I [...]

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Emily from How to Blog on June 8th, 2006

While I reported the WordPress 2.0.3 upgrade as soon as I heard about it, I held off on installing the upgrade (mostly because I didn’t have time right away). That worked out to my advantage as it turns out that some ‘buglets’ slipped through quality assurance testing and now they’re going to have to [...]

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