Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
WordPress 2.8 appears on the scene
WordPress 2.8 came out today. According to its developers, this release contains some 790 bug fixes. It’s now available for download from the WordPress site.
Entrecard’s bait-and-switch
Entrecard began as a community-drive way for blog owners to trade ads. Now, it’s becoming a paid ad network.
If you use the service, you probably know that Entrecards, which used to show approved ads from community members, and paid you in credits, and allowed you to advertise on other Entrecards, now show paid ads 50% of the time. You can reject paid ads, and check an option (it’s not checked by default!) to only allow approved ads on your widget, but that doesn’t change this core change in the purpose of Entrecard. OK, so that’s not what Entrecard was to begin with, and not what we signed up for. But maybe we’ll all make some money, so let’s hear them out.
WordPress 2.7 Released
I had neglected to grab a couple of WordPress updates, so when I saw the notice about WordPress 2.7 on one of my dashboards today, I figured it was about time. I went to download it, installed, and was suprised to see… things were different.
The new dashboard on my Xbox Living blog.
Blog Action Day is back
Last October, bloggers around the world were called to join together and raise awareness of a single topic on one day. Blog Action Day saw thousands of blogs writing about a single socially relevant topic: the Environment. I wrote on a few of my blogs, including Xbox Living, where I offered some tips on saving energy with the Xbox 360.
Edit sidebar content as a page in WordPress
I recently came across a situation where I needed to display the contents of a page in a WordPress sidebar. Essentially, my client needed an easy way to edit a sidebar that appeared on multiple pages. Editing a Text widget wasn’t an option: they needed the flexibility of editing a page.
