It’s Halloween in the United States (and much of the rest of the world). As such, people are gathering together for parties, going trick or treating and telling scary stories. In that spirit, last week on Performancing I discussed legal nightmares that can happen to you and your blog. Specifically, there were three scenarios that, […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Going Down With Your (Hosting) Ship
If there is one thing that the recent outages at Amazon Cloud and even the PlayStation Network can show us, it’s that even the best, most reliable companies can have serious problems with their hosting infrstructure and can go down. Unfortunately, as a blogger, you’re just a passenger on someone else’s ship on the Web. […]
Blogging Pitfalls: We’ll Do It Live
If you blog long enough, at some point you’re going to be faced with a sticky problem. You need to make a major change to your site, such as switch to a new CMS, upgrade a critical component or set up a new theme. However, your live site already has a pretty lengthy history behind […]
3 Things I Learned About WordPress In 2010
With 2010 coming to a close and many bloggers reflecting on their top 10 lists, I thought it would be nice to share 4 things I learned about WordPress this year that I wish I knew in 2009. Granted some of these services didn’t exist in 2009 (as you’ll see below), however many of their […]
Should Probloggers Backup Their Social Data?
In an age where everyone and their grandmother is tweeting or Facebooking, many bloggers take for granted that both of these social networks will “always be there” in the future (despite the infrequent fail whales). However if Facebook or Twitter went off line or (worse) decided to kick you off of their respective networks, you […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Should Perform a Blog Security Audit Today
Imagine sitting down to your computer one morning and opening up your blog. However, instead of finding your homepage your admin panel staring back at you, you instead see a bright red warning screen telling you that malware has been detected on the site and you are advised not to enter. The realization quickly sinks […]
3 FREE (Or Cheap) Ways To Safely Back Up Your Blog
Ever since Automattic (the company behind WordPress) debuted VaultPress, there has been intense discussion (online and off) by self hosted bloggers over how much one should pay to secure their blog data. Some users have even boasted that they back up their data to their email account or home computer, two choices that should NEVER […]
VaultPress from WordPress: The Good, the Bad, and the Beta
In June Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com for you non-geeks) began granting users access to their latest and greatest beta VaultPress. Unlike other services of Automattic, VaultPress is geared strictly towards self hosting WordPress blogs (aka WordPress.org) as a data backup service that protects a bloggers data in the even that their hosting company dies, […]
The 3 Blog Laws Of Self Hosting (Ignore Them At Your Own Risk)
Despite the benefits of blogging upon Blogger, WordPress.com, OnSugar (for Drupal lovers), or a microblogging site like Tumblr, there comes a season in your life when you must embrace the trials and tribulations of self hosting your blog. Fortunately in the age of social networking and blogs, most hosting companies offer clients “one click” installs […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Plugin Purgatory
Everyone loves WordPress plugins. They’re great and they can do a ton of great things from improve your commenting system to improving your site’s security. While WordPress plugins are great, too much of any good thing is simply that, too much. Going overboard with WordPress plugins can have an adverse affect on your blog in […]