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.
From the category archives:
WebDev
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.
Do you run a blog? Do you make money from it? If so, then listen up… Effective December 1st, the FTC is requiring bloggers to disclose paid endorsements. The price of non-compliance? An $11k fine.
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…
I recently needed to change the password for one of my MySQL logins. The good news is that, once I figured out the proper syntax, it was very easy to do. Here’s the rundown…
Have you ever wished you could quickly and easily create html tables? WeIl… I just ran across a cool web-based tool for creating html tables with minimal effort.
Here’s a quick tip for those of you that need to check web layouts on a variety of platforms/browsers…
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.