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WordPress Annoyances

By Lee Robertson • Apr 9th, 2008

I had started this post to submit it to the Pet Peeve week group writing project, but it unfortunately has been called off so you all get to enjoy it.
WordPress 2.5 has been released to the world and it offers a redesigned administration user interface that is a joy to work with. There is no [...]



WordPress & Amazon.com

By Lee Robertson • Mar 17th, 2008

Epiblogger is not specifically a “Make Money Online” blog, in fact I can’t think of a single post yet that talked about making money online. If you have spent any time reading “Make Money Online” blogs I am sure you would have read the advice to not keep all your eggs in one basket. In [...]



A Theme, A Theme, My Kingdom for a Theme!

By Lee Robertson • Feb 25th, 2008

Finding the right look for your blog can be maddening sometimes. When Rhett and I started Epiblogger we searched through a lot of the free themes that are available, knowing full well that whatever theme we choose would still not be perfect and would require touching up. Even after some work on the Mimbo theme [...]



WordPress 2.3.3 Urgent Security Release

By Lee Robertson • Feb 5th, 2008

If you have not logged into you WordPress blog yet today you might not know that WordPress has issued an urgent security release to fix a flaw in the XML-RPC implementation that could allow any valid user to create a request that would allow them to edit the posts of any other user on the [...]



Making Backup Sexy!

By Lee Robertson • Feb 4th, 2008

I am a geek. I know I am a geek. I revel in my geekiness. How do I know I am a geek? Because I get a thrill from geeky things like backing up. Maybe it is because I have had too many hard drives die early deaths and too many websites that have had [...]



Keep the Comment Bots at Bay

By Lee Robertson • Jan 30th, 2008

It does not take long after your blog opens before the automated comment spam bots start to invade your beautiful creation. Dealing with comment spam is a daily task for every blogger, and if the automated comment spam bots have you on their list of blogs to attack it can be an over whelming task. [...]



Use WordPress to Welcome Visitors

By Lee Robertson • Jan 14th, 2008

One of the great things about WordPress is how extend able it is. By adding in a few simple plugins you can have WordPress create special welcome messages to people depending on how many times they have visited your website or where they are coming from. [...]



5 WordPress Security Essentials

By Lee Robertson • Jan 9th, 2008

Blogging can be a lot of fun and there is nothing more thrilling than having people appreciate your hard work by leaving comments and passing the word around about how great your blog is. Unfortunately along with all of your great fans there are also just as many bad guys out there that would love […]



WordPress 2.5 in March

By Lee Robertson • Jan 4th, 2008

WordPress 2.4 was scheduled to be released here in January but with the holidays and the new Administration Panel that is coming it was decided to hold off on releasing 2.4 in January and instead release 2.5 in March. It is good to know that they are not rushing the new release out the door [...]



5 WordPress Search Engine Essentials

By Lee Robertson • Jan 2nd, 2008

One of the things we want to do here at Epiblogger is focus on ideas and tips for bloggers to make blogging easier and more fun. I come to blogging from a very different perspective than Rhett. I consider myself a webmaster, not a blogger, I enjoy sitting and coding websites from scratch and there [...]