I was performing some site maintenance this morning and went to my blog at finishbasement.net. When I tried to load the page in my browser, nothing - just a blank page. I was a little concerned but not too much. These hackers couldn’t do anything that I couldn’t undo in short [...]

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One of the downsides of Wordpress is the constant release of updates. What a complete pain in the ass to have to update this crap every few weeks. Apparently 2.5.1 contains, among other things, a security fix. I’ve got about 50 or so blogs and dealing with this every time an update [...]

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I noticed my 1.0.2 version of Photo Dropper went kablooey. It appears you have to update to beyond 1.0.2 for Wordpress 2.5 compatibility. I updated to what is right now the latest Photo Dropper 1.0.5.
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Popularity: 18% [?]

I have two Wordpress 2.5 tips today.
1 - When working with images, go ahead and upload all your images at once and then add them one by one to your post. This seems to be the easiest way to work with images in Wordpress 2.5 that I’ve found. Also, if you [...]

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Wow this is cool! You can insert a whole gallery of photos into your post. You can also upload the images all at once. I did these all in one upload then just selected gallery and then just hit “Add Gallery to Post.”
This is a nice way to handle a bunch of [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 has stats right on the dashboard. If you have trouble finding the dashboard look to the upper left of the screen and you’ll see a tab for it.

Wordpress Stats in Dashboard
Wordpress also gives you some cool data on posts and pages.
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E-booknow.com is now running on the final release version of Wordpress 2.5.
One of my biggest complaints about Wordpress was that their default text box for writing posts was tiny. You could increase the size in the options menu but sometimes the change would not take on posts that were written prior to the change [...]

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The Wordpress 2.5 Dashboard has switched things up a bit and I was a little confused on how to add a photo to my blog. After some searching, I found it staring me right in the face.

You’ll see it here where the “Add Image” balloon has popped up. Click on that [...]

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e-booknow.com’s blog is currently running Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 2. I’m still getting to know it but will offer one nice little tidbit for you Wordpress junkies out there.
In Wordpress 2.5, you can update your plugins directly from the plugin menu of the Wordpress Dashboard. No more downloading the plugin and [...]

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I recently made the move to take all blog posts and blog pages off of a home improvement site that I help run. I had originally added a wordpress blog to the website as an experiment to see how it affected traffic and earnings. To wordpress’ credit, I probably didn’t experiment enough with [...]

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