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WordPress 2.5 Upgrade: WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now Message Appears after Upgrade Troubleshooting

When a client of mine upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from WordPress 2.5 she encountered an issue where the database will not upgrading, resulting in the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.” flashing in her dashboard and every other admin pages. On initial search of the WordPress support forum, we found the following strings that [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Awareness, Bug Fix, Code, Design, PHP, Security Fix, Spam, WP, Web, Web Hosting, blog, hacks, headsetoptions, how to, internet, news, resources, techniques, wordpress // 04.28.2008 at 10:27 am // 1 Comment »

WordPress 2.5.1 and CVE 2008 1930

WordPress 2.5.1 is already out, so the blog you upgraded last month, is outdated and worse, could be vulnerable. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE 2008 1930) which reads as below is now known to be the reason for this hastened release:
An attacker, who is able to register a specially crafted username on a Wordpress [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Design, New Release, Security Fix, WP, Web, blog, internet, resources, wordpress // 04.25.2008 at 3:37 pm // 1 Comment »

Richmond Web Tech, Startup, and Entrepreneur Meetup: April 16th

If you are a local, drop in and meet Richmond net entrepreneurs, web designers, and network with folks interested in the internet and technology. Here’s a link to the meet up, sign up for free and stop by. I personally would like to meet some WordPress enthusiasts.

// Tagged Announcements, Non-profit, Richmond, Un, Virginia, WP, Web Design, entrepreneurs, internet, news, resources, social networking, technology, web 2.0, wordpress // 03.25.2008 at 7:34 pm // Have your say »

Free CSS Templates David Herreman’s New Site Layoutica

One of the best CSS designer offering free templates has a new home, visit Layoutica and you will see what I mean. David plans on offering among other things free CSS template layouts, premium and free WordPress themes. His sites also has wealth of information pertaining to web design.
As per David, Layoutica.com will deliver useful [...]

// Tagged Announcements, CSS, David Herreman, Design, blog, free css templates, free wp theme, internet, news, premium templates, resources, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 02.03.2008 at 10:57 am // 6 Comments »

Fellow Designer gets Hacked- Site Stolen

DavidAirey.com was recently hacked and completely hijacked. David is pursuing legal channels to restore his site, in the meantime he continues his work and services at http://www.davidairey.co.uk/. This incident should serve as a somber reminder to everyone to frequently change your passwords and keep them secure.

// Tagged Announcements, Awareness, Blogger, David Airey, Oddities, Un, blog, internet, technology, web sites // 12.23.2007 at 2:16 pm // 3 Comments »

SEO Adsense Ready WordPress Version of Profilo Theme

Profilo is an advanced 2-column Google Adsense ready WordPress theme designed and search engine optimized by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions. The theme was originally designed for GETM based on Profilo, a Textpattern theme. This theme includes many advanced functions like an options page to edit the theme style without touching a line of code, intelligent conditional [...]

// Tagged 2 column, Adsense ready, Advanced WordPress Theme, Design, GETM, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme, WP, WP Theme Viewer, Web, Web Design, Widget, free css templates, free wp theme, internet, mandarinmusing, premium templates, professional quality, resources, theme viewer, web sites, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 12.13.2007 at 10:35 pm // 19 Comments »

Yahoo! Shortcuts Plugin Test Drive

Blogs about Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin is even muffling news about Movable Type OS. Is the plugin that good or is it a hype? To find out, I have activated a beta version of the plugin and thought I will give it a try. This post was one such test. To keep things simple, I decided [...]

// Tagged Blogging Tips, MTOS, Media, Movable Type, New Release, Oddities, Un, WP, Widget, Yahoo, asides, blog, internet, resources, technology, tips // 12.13.2007 at 3:02 pm // 1 Comment »

The First Year of IE7 Gone Bad

The IE7 development team thought it would make for good PR to pat themselves on the back. Turns out the readers are mostly frustrated users/designers trying to “fix” their otherwise (CSS) standards based work by means of IE hacks. Just skip the content of the blog and dive straight into the comments; that’s the fun [...]

// Tagged IE, Microsoft, Oddities, Stupid, Un, Windows, Windows Vista, asides, blog, funny, hacks, internet, socio-political // 12.11.2007 at 5:21 pm // Have your say »

MC Hammer Launches Video Site Dance Jam

Just when the Web 2.0 market was getting crowded with poorly conceptualized ideas (saturation? remember the tech balloon burst of 2001); MC Hammer (yep, the baggy pant one) is launching his own portal that would host only dance videos. His competition, YouTube!

// Tagged Business, Humor, Oddities, Stupid, Un, Video, blog, internet, news, socio-political, web 2.0, websites // 12.05.2007 at 7:13 am // Have your say »

(mt) Grid Down and Back

As you might have noticed, a few of our sites on (mt) went down last night due to an upgrade that went wrong; we are back now (12/01/2007, 2.03 PM EST) and hopefully did not lose any data. It seems like most of the hosts no longer offer uptime guarantees, clever move on their part. [...]

// Tagged (mt), Announcements, Un, Web Hosting, blog, headsetoptions, internet, mandarinmusing, websites // 12.01.2007 at 11:23 am // Have your say »