This is just a quick tip for all you bloggers out there. If you’re using your site for anything more than just a personal journal, I would strongly suggest not using dates in your urls. There are numerous good reasons for this. I’ll outline three of the biggest ones below.
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This site is powered by Wordpress, and the front-end is built on the Thesis theme. If you’ve spent much time in the wonderful world of Wordpress, then you’ve likely heard that Thesis is the best thing since sliced bread. Well, I’m here to tell you to be careful what you believe.
Have you ever wondered about the best way to insert Adsense ads into your Wordpress posts? Placing ads around your content is easy enough — just code it into your theme. But what about embedding them within your content?
If you’re using the Thesis WordPress theme and are looking for information on how to remove the attribution link from the footer, then you’ve come to the right place. But first…
Apparently the WordPress search redirect hack that I reported on the other day is fairly widespread. Moreover, it’s been taking down sites running WordPress installs as late as ver. 2.5.1, so it appears that upgrading won’t necessarily protect you (example)*.
After yesterday’s excitement with one of my WordPress installs getting hacked, I though I’d point out an interesting article on securing Wordpress:
Hardening WordPress
I haven’t read it closely yet, but it looks quite useful.
Something scary happened today over at one of my other sites. Around 3:30 EDT, I noticed that traffic to the site was running way below normal. Upon further investigation, I realized that my search engine traffic had all but dried up. Thinking I had been banned by Google, I dug deeper.
This is a quick note to WordPress users our there… I have always felt that you should never rely on a plugin to do something that can just as easily be done by hand, especially when it comes to content creation.