Another feature of WordPress 2.6 is that the XML-RPC is turned OFF by default. Now, you have to turn XML-RPC or Atom ON for it to work (in WordPress 2.6, go to Admin’s Settings; Writing; Remote Publishing and check the protocols for ‘Atom’, ‘XML-RPC’, or both). I’m of a mixed mind of this. On the one hand, a default ‘off’ is a great way to reduce abuses - most people don’t need it, so leaving...

The July 2008 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is ready. Topics: • What’s New With ActiveBlogging • WordPress 2.6 Now Available. A new upgrade, with many new features. Is it time to move up a version - or wait? You be the judge... • How To Sell Websites For Maximized Profit. People ARE making money flipping domains and websites - is it a ’secret art’, or can YOU easily make more money from that spare domain you have...

I received an email today on splitting WordPress feeds up - that is, how to make a separate feeds for a page or topic. The easiest way by far it to put that post in a separate category, and then offer a category feed as a URL: http://egwebsite.com/?feed=rss2&cat=1 In this case, the blog would be at the ‘root’ of egwebsite.com - it is isn’t, then change that. For example, a site based on ‘myblog’ would...

My Open Source plugin U-Cron makes it easy to time things without setting up a cron job. But things CAN go wrong - after all, one plugin will not serve the needs of every site out there - there’s too many combinations of versions of PHP, mySQL, WordPress, Operating systems, hardware, (and so on and so on)... So here’s a bit of a checklist on what to check out: • U-Cron requires your theme to cooperate...

It’s brand new, and I’m still playing around with it - but I seem to have gotten the ‘bad’ features first, and so I’m rather negative on this version. Or perhaps it’s late at night and I’m tired of YAWU (Yet Another WordPress Upgrade) for my sites. Mind you, the shopping list of new features is very, very impressive (the version highlighting looks promising). But on setting it up I found the venerable self-install is...

I could spend words and words leading up to the simple answer to this question: Yes. And there’s not a darn thing anyone can do about it. I was prompted by this when I heard of a product that promised to ‘hide’ WordPress from the search engines. Of course, every product has its hype, and that IS a neat way to advertise it. In fact, I suspect he/she may get sales because of that angle...