Karen Blundell

I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 and everything went smoothly. As far as I can tell, all plugins are working correctly. I did have to upgrade a few of them but now with this version’s new automatic plugin upgrade function, it was simple and fast! I’m very pleased! Now you no longer have to [...]

I just took a sneak peek at WordPress 2.5, and I’m really excited. We will be getting a much more streamlined dashboard that looks easier to navigate and should load a lot quicker. It will be nice to be able to customize the dashboard to our liking.
The Write screen has had a complete overhaul and [...]

It’s official. The scheduled release of WordPress 2.5 has been delayed. Thank goodness! According to the list of plugins that are compatible with version 2.5, only 4 or 5 of my list of 23 plugins are ready and compatible with the latest WordPress release.
Hopefully, the extra week will be enough time for all WordPress plugin [...]

Recently I particpated in a discussion about the best social bookmarking plugins to use with WordPress. I had been using ShareThis previously and what I didn’t know is that the plugin relies in part on some code residing on the ShareThis servers. I don’t really like that because if something happens to that server it [...]

©Feed is a nifty plugin for extending your WordPress feed to include a copyright notice, a digital fingerprint, and the IP address of the feed reader. Also some search engines are scanned for the digital fingerprint in order to identify content theft.
Another great feature of the plugin is that comments can be implemented into [...]