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Ushering In a New Wordpress

July 18, 2010

Well, Wordpress 3.0 is official out and I’ve held my breath for a while on it until I got over the initial birthing pains.
You see, I’ve been in the computer business for some time and I really do avoid major updates to any software. I prefer others to run ahead and ‘test the waters’ so [...]

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Speeding Up Wordpress

May 15, 2010

I recently had a funny thing happen to me about two weeks ago that involved WordPress and my wife. You see, having someone in the house that understands wordpress is just too handy to let go by. So, she had me setup a site for her and she has started to blog in earnest!
But it [...]

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A Year In Review 2009 – 2010

March 23, 2010

It’s hard to believe that already a year has flown by here at usingwp.com! The first post was written exactly on the 20th of March 2009.
Things have changed quite a bit here on usingwp.com too. When I started this blog, I thought that I would make it very techie like, but as time marched on, [...]

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WordPress 3.0 – What’s Troubling Me

March 14, 2010

There’s quite a bit of hype in regards to the feature of multiblogs within one installation of Wordpress. This has been a feature of WordPress mu, the cousin of WordPress.
It’s actually been stated on several other sites that this a code merging between the two platforms. I’m not sure I’m too pleased about this, just [...]

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Building Your Social Network With Buddypress

August 4, 2009

Welcome to the latest and greatest for building your very own social network – buddypress.
This specialty plugin is a plugin and theme combination. And at this time of writing, only is compatible with wordpress mu. This is the multi-blog version of Wordpress.
So, what do I think about Buddypress?
Buddypress is not a terribly hard package to [...]

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Why WordPress Sucks

May 5, 2009

Huh? Why would I ever write an article about why wordpress sucks? Isn’t this a website that promotes the use of Wordpress? Well, to tell you the truth, nothing is perfect and if you come walking into a situation with full knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work, you can be better prepared when [...]

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