The 42nd Estate

Wordpress 2.8.5 has just been released. The main additions are security tweaks, which makes the update a must download.

We’ve witnessed and received reports that after upgrading the wordpress.com stats plugin, wordpress.org blogs will not record stats unless you go into the plugins section and activate the plugin. No error messages are given during the upgrade, and it appears to re-activate correctly, but if you browse into the dashboard Blog Stats will not be listed.

If you blog, you likely want comments on your posts, right? One of the great things about blogging, is that your readers can chime in with their opinion and either expand on your original article or show a different perspective on the…

Luckily, as with many Wordpress issues, there’s a simply to install, simple to use plugin that will allow you to display as many posts as you want in the category and tag archives.

Recently, wordpress changed the default encoding for MySQL databases used in self-hosted wordpress installations from Latin to UTF-8. It’s a smart move and makes wordpress databases adhere to web standards, but the change caused some blogs to display some funky characters, that…