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 January 25th, 2007

Denis de Benardy (the creator of the Semiologic Pro theme and many of the amazing WordPress plug-ins used here on How To Blog) sent off the following warning to his mailing list and kindly allowed me to quote him here:
Hello all,
I’m getting a rather large number of emails related to WordPress 2.1, so I figured [...]

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Emily from How to Blog on January 22nd, 2007

I’m sorry that, for personal reasons, it’s been just about forever since my last post. I hope to change that in the future.
In the meantime, a number of minor WordPress releases have come and gone - but today the next major revision of WordPress, version 2.1 (aka “Ella”), has been released. In addition [...]

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