Yearly Archives: 2008

WordPress Theme of the Month: Annexation

This month’s featured WordPress theme is Annexation, released by Six Revisions and created by Chris Wallace.

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Yahoo BOSS Search “Vertical Lense”

Remember Yahoo’s BOSS Search API? Well, they’re not done with it yet. A new expansion to the service has just launched, though it is currently available only to “certain Yahoo! partners,” with a promise that it will eventually become part of the main BOSS…

BlogBuzz November 29, 2008

How Secure is Your Domain?

Domain name hijacking has become increasingly prevalent in the last few years. I’ve watched two fairly major domains be stolen out from under their owners’ noses, though they thankfully got them back. Be cautious, and take care that no one walks away with your…

Magpie: A Potentially Bad Way to Monetize Twitter

I had a feeling it wouldn’t be too long until people starting looking for ways to make money off Twitter. Over the past few weeks I’ve watched Magpie spread through the Twitterverse, and seen users’ response to it. They don’t like it. The general…

How To: Integrate Non-WordPress Pages in WordPress

Have you ever put together a cool script or page on your own, and then wanted to integrate it into WordPress so it would have the same look and feel as the rest of your site? Maybe you have a custom survey you put…

PC Magazine to Stop Being Printed

The final edition of PC Magazine, the 25-year-running tech magazine, will be released in January of 2009. The magazine is the originator of comparative software and hardware reviews, and perhaps the first magazine about Personal Computers. While the magazine is going away, the website,…

Full Posts or Excerpts? How About Both?

Should you display full posts on your WordPress blog’s index, or excerpts? Normally I fall into the camp that says you shouldn’t display ten full posts on your main page, since you end up with more duplicate content, and it takes longer to scroll…

Prelovac’s WordPress Optimization Guide

Vladimir Prelovac has an excellent article on optimizing WordPress for speed available now. It covers plenty of bases, such as Caching using WP Super Cache MySQL Caching Checking plugins for slowdowns Optimizing tables If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, “MySQL server has…

BlogBuzz November 22, 2008