The May 2008 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is ready. Topics: • What’s New With ActiveBlogging • Painfree WordPress Upgrading Tired of updating your WordPress blog frequently - but worried about security? Then you need these tricks and ‘gotchas’ to make upgrading a one-minute breeze! • How To Blog By Email RIGHT Using WordPress! It sounds like a dream: write an email, hit send, and have it magically appear on your blog from anywhere. But if you’ve tried...

In preparing May’s “The ActiveBlogging Report”, my somewhat short article on posting by email in WordPress has ballooned into the largest in the issue. Why? The simple matter is that posting by email is one of those dark corners no one seems to be talking about. Searching the Internet on ‘blog by email’ or ‘posting by email’ (at least with WordPress) provided very little solid information. However, all that is changed. The report for May...

I take version numbers seriously. When I see a v6.05 or a v4.03 or something like that, I understand it to be a contract between the developer and the client, “this works, and will remain unchanged until I change the number”. So of course I had to break my own rule! A bug came up a few hours after ABTheme 4.06 came out. I had caught the bug before and squished it (an annoying CSS...

It took longer than expected (mainly because of other projects), but version 4.06 of the best Search Engine Optimized theme and plugin package for WordPress is ready. Although most of the work involved tweaks and bugfixes, there is one biggy - from 4.06 on, the ‘rental’ licenses are now inactivate. When ActiveBlogging first started off, members could use the plugin free as long as they stayed a member - this was done by plugin code...

Some people install WordPress in a subdirectory, so they can point to their blog from their main site. The initial impulse usually seems to be to name the directory /blog/ This is often not a good idea, for a couple of reasons: • Keywords in the URL are valuable. This is prime real estate in your Search Engine Optimization efforts, and shouldn’t be ignored. For example, if you’re doing a blog on dog training, which do...

For people who work on the Internet, blogs are a ‘been there, done that’, sort of thing. But for others, blogs mean no more than anything else on the Internet. So to cut through the tech, and illuminate the REAL reason you want a blog, I’ve released a report I wrote: How DO I Make Money With Blogs? It explains what blogs are, why they are a good thing (and they are a VERY good...