I became a member of the Board of Minnesota Offroad Cyclists (MORC) back in January. At a meeting last weekend, a couple of board members who are avid mountain bikers told…
Tag: <span>WordPress</span>
I’m teaming up with fellow Northfielder Tim Freeland of Freeland Web Design to teach the WordPress for Noobs course. Tim’s been working with many area organizations on their WordPress-based websites.…
Got a question about WordPress, either the .com or .org versions? Join me for a free live text chat here on LoGro, Tuesday, June 28, 10-11 am and I’ll answer…
About a year ago, Northfield Public Schools superintendent Chris Richardson accepted my offer to meet with him so I could explain why the District’s website sucked big time. He took…
In late October, I hosted (with a little help from my friends, Tracy Davis and Sean Hayford O’Leary,) two WordPress Q&A webinars for Northfield area WordPress users. A few days later, I attended my first Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group meeting. And two weekends ago, I presented two sessions at WordCamp MSP in Richfield.
All of which served to convince me that A) the popularity of WordPress continues to grow; and B) the demand for help in using it continues to grow.
So I decided to create an online course called WordPress for Noobs, and have it be the first course delivered by my new interactive learning platform:
Many websites and blogs in the Rice County area are running on the WordPress platform, the most popular content management system in the world. While WordPress is relatively easy to…
Many Northfield area blog sites run on WordPress. If your site is one of them, be sure to upgrade to Version 2.8.4 ASAP because there’s a nasty worm making the rounds this weekend:
- WordPress blog: How to Keep WordPress Secure
- Lorelle: Old WordPress Versions Under Attack
- Mashable Social Media Guide: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade
I wrote to my favorite web host, Tiger Technologies in California, asking them if they knew about it the worm and whether they could tell if any sites had been compromised. The owner, Robert Mathews, wrote me back within a few minutes: