Help! My WordPress install is borked and I don’t know how to fix it or even where to begin looking This question is actually inspired by the support thread over at the WordPress Support Forums regarding a percieved bug in the Autosave feature in WordPress 2.1. In that thread, things got very heated as one […]

I have a site that is a non blog site and I want to add a WordPress blog and allow the rest of the site to benefit from feeds, users, etc from the blog itself. Is there any easy way to do this? Absolutely, this is a simple process. I’ve had a number of people […]

What can/should I do to protect, secure, backup, etc.? Earlier in this series, I answered the question about migrating to a different host. In that article, I gave an overview on how to backup your database. Technically, you can use the same instructions to backup your blog. Do a database dump via phpMyAdmin (ask your […]

What advantages obtain from direct tagging, whether manually or by widget, vice using the WP category? This question comes from James Joyner. This is a widely-held debate, so I’ll provide my own opinion. ;-) As far as Technorati, and perhaps Google Blog Search is concerned, WordPress categories and tags are one and the same. However, […]

Why doesn’t the democracy feature allow for polls asking for voters to “check all that apply?” Democracy is a great little plugin that allows for polls on WordPress blogs. I have a lot of history with the Democracy plugin, but fortunately the plugin has come a loooong way and improved quite a bit. I asked […]