It looks like so many older WordPress blogs are being heavily spammed through issues that have been fixed for over a year now. Why is this? Because we are all too lazy to upgrade our blogs.
Now Technorati, and most likely other services like it are taking a hard look at older WordPress run blogs […]

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As I continue to use WordPress as a publishing platform, I find myself wondering if there are better workflow systems when writing content on WordPress, or ways to make WordPress run faster in the eyes of my readers.
I know a little about caching, and various different administration themes, and things like Windows Live Writer, but […]

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Weblog Tools Collection asks the question “do we use the WordPress visual editor?”
I know that myself, and many other people I know, are just like Mark and Jim from WTC in that right after installing WordPress, we turn it off.
Why do we turn it off? Well, mostly because it doesn’t work as effectively as […]

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Aaron Brazell has released his 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3 post on Technosailor and if you really want to be “in the know” about WordPress 2.3 which will have its final release in less than a week, I suggest you check out this post.
It covers things like tags, update notifications and […]

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Those of you that love crazy long lists of resources and tools should check out the post on Mashable which is packed the brim with things that WordPress administrators should be using.

Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. We’ve compiled an A-Z list of more than 50 plugins to help you […]

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Darren Hoyt has put up two parts on WordPress and how great it has been as a content management system. In his latest part entitled “In Praise of Wordpress Template Tags, Part II: The Magazine Layout” he shows how he integrated WordPress into a website, using it to run an online magazine. A very cool […]

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Over on Devlounge you can find out some great tips, tricks and tutorials on how to create a plugin that can use a databse, be it your own tables, and/or WordPress’ own.
When you are writing a plugin, you will inevitably have to store variables in a database and retrieve them. Fortunately WordPress makes data […]

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If you thought built-in widgets were all you got with WordPress 2.2, Austin Matzko of Il Filosofo has some details that might interest you.
You can now set your site’s “home� and “siteurl� values in the wp-config.php file
WordPress now uses PHPMailer for email
WordPress Now Includes the jQuery JavaScript library
This is a great addition to the software, […]

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Over on the Turbocharged blog, there is a great, in detail post for semi-advanced to advanced WordPress users to help them deal with heavy traffic.
Everyone’s been there at least once. One of your blog pages gets dugg or slashdotted. What to do?
WordPress is often maligned as a resource-hungry blog platform — one that requires […]

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Turbocharged has a great tutorial for those looking to move their blog from one web host to another. Sometimes this can be an easy process, other times, not so easy. I recommend upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, and using their Export and Import tools to move your content, but the Turbocharged tutorial goes […]

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We here at Blogging Pro try to use a variety of different Anti-comment spam tools, but the most effective one thus far has been manually taking a look at everything, and Abe Olandres of the Blog Herald, has recently poured through his Akismet flagged list, and found some false positives.
He also gives some tips […]

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Lorelle talks about translation options on her blog, including some great plugins to translate your content, but all of them use machine translation, meaning the translated text is not very good, as it is translated word by word, and not in the context of the sentence, but if you need to translate your content, Lorelle […]

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Chris Pearson is a designer I really respect, and recently he has given another tip out that while some keen web developers might know, most people playing around with editing themes, might not. It is that the changes you make could be put in a special custom file so you don’t have to re-change the […]

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I try to stay away from posts that talk about blog optimization because there are so many of them, but after reading the one on Search Engine Land, I just couldn’t help but mention it. There are too many great points on it that are straight forward, and written in a way that everyone can […]

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Download Squad has written up the complete post-install checklist for WordPress 2.0.x blogs, and it covers things like disabling the visual rich editor, and permalinks. A great resource for beginners looking at getting WordPress running better than its “stock” configuration.
Now select the Permalinks tab. To help increase your search rankings, most SEO folks suggest […]

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Ia over at Stellify.net talks about the extended downtime that Gravatar, a popular system–especially among bloggers and blog commenters–for generating avatars, is experiencing.

Apparently, Ia suddenly saw strange postings of the text “Suckage!” on her blog’s comment threads, and thought the site was being attacked. Fortunately, it was just a “maintenance” message that the Gravatars2 WordPress […]

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I have always found getting from the xhtml/css part of a web design to a full on WordPress theme the easiest way to do things, but I have not come up with a nice tutorial to explain the process of converting such a template to a theme. Luckily, Texto.de has put up a nice tutorial […]

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Lorelle chimes in on an article by Jim Westergren who has created a tutorial on the various ways of making a site map for your blog. We are not talking about the XML sitemaps, but instead a list of posts and pages throughout the site.
Jim lists the benefits (which I have included below) as well […]

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Ben Bleikamp has put up a how-to guide on setting WordPress up locally on your Mac OS X machine using a one-click install package called MAMP, or Mac + Apache + mySQL, and PHP.
Here is the point form version. He goes through each of these steps with a bit more description, but overall, it is […]

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Many of use stopped using our anti-comment spam tools when Automattic, the WordPress folks, came out with their service, Akismet. It works well, it seems to learn how to defend our blogs against new types of spam comments, and has been stopping millions of spam for those using it.
The problem is, we have really […]

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