I knew this was going to happen. I’ve written before about what I think is a mistaken change in WordPress 3.2.1 – not showing the status of your Privacy setting on all admin screens.
Well, it caught up with me this morning during a site launch. Had forgotten to remove the Privacy setting, which was on [...]

It’s a very common question potential clients ask me:  Do you want to know how many pages I’ll need? And for the most part the answer is: no.
Years ago, the number of pages on a website was an important part of costing out a website. That’s because the physical pages had to be created in [...]

When you have a large amount of text in a post, it’s important to break it up with sub-headings, and you’ll find those in the format or paragraph drop down menu on your Visual text editor  (technically, it’s the format menu, but most of the time you see it displaying the paragraph setting because that’s [...]

Just got off the phone with a client who couldn’t enter text in a new post she was creating.  She would type it in, but when saving it, the text disappeared. Weird!
The fact that I had no trouble going in and editing the post pointed to a browser issue:  I had Firefox and she was [...]

I had a blog with WordPress 2.8.1 and used the built-in automated update to go to 2.8.4.  Suddenly the process stopped at the point where it says “Installing the latest version.”  I left it for a half hour, but when I came back it was still stalled.
I tried clicking on the dashboard and saw this [...]

Quite some time ago I thought about changing the username of the default admin account on WordPress, but you can’t change a username once it’s set.  I thought the same thing applied to the admin account itself (just as WordPress has a default category that you cannot delete).
Turns out you can easily get rid of [...]