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Bye bye Blogger. It was fun while it lasted.
I’ve been using Blogger since before Google owned it. This blog has been published using Blogger since day one. Yesterday I found out the the geniuses at Google have decided to abandon the .5% of...
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Welcome to WordPress
With the gracious help of Mr. Blake Carver at the amazing LISHost (The librarian’s Web hosting service) and an assist by Emily at the Nebraska Library Association this blog & site is powered by...
View ArticleNew year, new theme
Just a quick note to those of you reading this via RSS: I’ve implemented a new theme. Much more computer-y than the last one. Take a moment to visit the site and let me know what you think.
View ArticleWordPress 3.x updates on IIS
Not that I would ever recommend running WordPress on IIS but some of us have to due to the powers-that-be requiring the use of a Microsoft platform. That being the case we’ve been running into trouble...
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Amazon ‘Send to Kindle’ Function Now Available for WordPress
I already have add-ons for my browsers that do this (purely for testing purposes honestly,) and I’m not sure that I want a button on my blog that only sends to a single platform, however… The “Send to...
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Adding Instapaper as a WordPress Jetpack sharing service
So, in case you haven’t noticed I’ve been giving this blog a makeover. As part of this process I’ve been replacing several third-party plugins and adding features via the WordPress Jetpack plugin. One...
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One feed to rule them all
This one is for those of us running multi-site WordPress installs. In my case, a co-worker was following each and every RSS feed for each of the participating libraries hosted by Nebraska Libraries on...
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Yes, there is really a WordPress attack happening right now
At about noon today I installed the Limit Logon Attempts WordPress plugin due to the recent reports of a major bot net attack on WordPress sites going on. Since then I’ve received the following...
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The Year Without Pants
Author Scott Berkun author of the educational and entertaining Confessions of a Public Speaker is releasing his next book on September 17: The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work....
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WordPress now publicizes to Google+
Users of WordPress.com and Jetpack via WordPress.org (as of version 2.7 released today,) can now use the Publicize function to automatically send their blog posts to Google+ profiles and pages. This is...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Changing authors in WordPress
It isn’t something you’ll need to do all that often, but there will come a time where you may want to change the author’s name on a WordPress post. Here’s how you can do it: Make sure the new author...
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Tuesday Tech Tips: Embedding Content in WordPress
Those of you that know me, know I’m a big fan of WordPress. All of my personal sites run on WordPress, both the Greece Historical Society and Friends of the Aurora Public Library sites which I manage...
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What happened when Google discovered I had “Unnatural Outbound Links”
On Sunday, August 17th I woke up and checked my e-mail. Within my inbox was the following e-mail from Google: http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/: Unnatural outbound links Google has detected a pattern...
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WordPress proactively reacts to Gmail passwords leak
Bravo WordPress! This week, a group of hackers released a list of about 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords. This list was not generated as a result of an exploit of WordPress.com, but since a...
View ArticleNCompass Live Tech Talk: WordPress and SEO/SMO
JD Thomas, a white-hat SEO and WordPress consultant, will discuss how to improve the appearance of WordPress posts and pages in search engine results and when shared on social media. He will be...
View ArticleTuesday Tech Tip: A Bug in Chrome 45 Causes WordPress Admin Menu to Break
Via WP Tavern: Within the last five weeks, several people have reported an issue in Chrome that breaks the WordPress admin menu. If you hover the mouse cursor over menu items in the sidebar, they’ll...
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