Author Archives: Richard

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Follow up on WordPress Automatic Upgrade

Nov 17, 2009 – 9:02 am

I’ve now used the automatic upgrade feature in the self-hosted version of the WordPress software on a number of sites I manage, and for a number of upgrades, and it has functioned flawlessly. It is so much quicker than doing it manually via FTP since the automatic upgrade only upgrades the WordPress files that have [...]

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Rich Irony at wordpress.com

Nov 16, 2009 – 2:34 pm

I love irony, and this one is soooo rich. On the wordpress.COM support page for the visual editor, there is – or is supposed to be – a video at the bottom, but it seems that wordpress.COM violated their own Terms of Service.
To whom do they plead their case to get it restored?

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It’s official: Google pays no attention to meta keywords

Oct 29, 2009 – 12:42 am

Matt Cutts of Google, and Google itself have now officially announced that they do not use meta keywords at all mostly due to past abuses, and with Google having over 83% of the search engine market share as of October 29, 2009, they are the ones you need to pay attention to. The breakdown:

Google – [...]

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