If you didn’t already know it, Wordpress has another security update, version 2.8.5 is now available and your Wordpress blogs do need to be updated. (if you would like for us to the update for you, you can contact us here).

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Just how important is the actual LOOK your blog has? Should you nab a free template that is just “ok”, or should you go the distance and really have it custom designed to your specs?
I guess it really comes down to the blog owner and the actual purpose of the blog. I personally [...]

Well, it is. A blog IS a website.
In fact, more and more companies are using blogging platforms as content management systems to run their entire site. With good reason. It’s effective.
Stop for a minute and think about how powerful Wordpress itself is. It’s an absolutely amazing content management system all by [...]

So you’ve optimized until you can’t optimize anymore. Doing everything the guru’s tell you to get your blog to the front page of Google, but for some reason you just don’t quite seem to get there.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s your blog design template that’s holding you back.
Whether you have a free template [...]

A low level security hole prompted a new version release of Wordpress today, version 2.6.3
Here’s the official blog post from Wordpress.
And here’s the meat of this update:
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a [...]

Yup, I can hear you groaning.
It’s really coming again. Another major update for Wordpress. Which is going to mean that another major update is going to be necessary for business blogs built on Wordpress software.
The upside is that it looks like the whole dashboard is getting another overhaul that seems [...]

Just a quick post, I know I’m running late today.
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you already know why….. Changes!
I’ve been hard at work making design changes to Business Blogs, plus adding some new features as well. Some of them you can see, some you can’t. But all [...]

So you’re blogging every day and building your blog up nicely. The posts are adding up and getting you some decent listings in the search engines. Right?
But how many pages have you added?
Some of you are going to answer something to the effect of, “one a day, of course.”
Maybe not. Because you [...]

Well, that was fast….
Wordpress has released version 2.6.2 today and it is a recommended update for all Wordpress blogs.
From the Wordpress.org security pages:

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing [...]

You can almost bet that when Google get’s behind something, there’s a reason. So it’s not a huge surprise that Google released the Beta version of their web browser, Google Chrome. Which I’m sure has much of the technology developed by and for Mozilla Firefox.
Google dumped a truckload of cash into the Firefox [...]