WordPress 2.6 Released - New features and gotchas

WordPress 2.6 has been released! See what new features WordPress 2.6 has in store and what issues to watch out for when upgrading.

July 24th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Wordpress | no comments

Year end blog traffic stats and 2008 goals

As mentioned in my two month review and goals, I had set my year end goal to be 2000 visits and 5000 pageviews so here is a recap of my year end (July 1st - December 31st) traffic stats as per Google Analytics to see if I met my goals.

3647 visits (3262 absolute unique) [...]

January 6th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Wordpress | no comments

Wordpress 2.3.2 released and Wordpress Version 2.5 (aka Wordpress 2.4) - Planned features

Wordpress 2.3.2 was released a few days ago (December 29th).  Although it is mainly a bugfix release, it does add a feature which allow you to define a custom DB error page.  This would allow your site to fail more gracefully if your database became unavailable for some reason.   Version 2.3.2 will also no [...]

January 4th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Wordpress | no comments

Wordpress 2.3 now running.

I managed to find a bit of time to update this blog to the recently released Wordpress 2.3. I did have to update a few of my plugins to ensure compatibility with the new version but besides that the upgrade went quite smoothly.
There is still one outstanding issue in that the Wordpress theme that [...]

September 30th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Wordpress | no comments

Wordpress 2.3 released

The latest and greatest version of Wordpress was released on Tuesday. Version 2.3 of Wordpress adds native tagging support which includes importers for tags created with Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags and Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugins. Now that native tagging support is available, I think that I will be doing some [...]

September 27th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Wordpress | one comment

SEO Tips for Bloggers - Matt Cutts presentation at Wordcamp 2007

I just watched an interesting Matt Cutts’ presentation at Wordcamp 2007 which discusses search engine optimization techniques and pitfalls for bloggers. There is nothing earth shattering in the presentation but he does make some good points of things to keep in mind while writing and structuring your blog.
Matt Cutts is the head of [...]

September 11th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Tech, Wordpress | no comments

Will WordPress 2.3 database schema changes break plugins?

It appears that the upcoming Wordpress 2.3 will contain some database schema changes which I am afraid will break some of the wordpress plugins.
The main changes appear to be related to categories but I will still be quite hesitant to upgrade before I can confirm that all of my plugins still work on the new [...]

September 10th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Tech, Wordpress | no comments

Wordpress 2.3 coming….

Wordpress 2.3 Beta 1 and Beta 2 have been released on the last two Mondays. The plan is to have beta releases on each Monday until the release of Wordpress 2.3 on September 24th.
The biggest features that are in this release are built-in tagging, update notifications, performance improvements and search engine friendly redirection.
I’m looking [...]

September 5th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Tech, Wordpress | no comments

Two month review and future goals

It has been about two months now that I installed Google Analytics and started concentrating a bit more on the blog. Although there have been a couple of dry spells in postings while I went to PEI for a couple of days of vacation in July and had some more vacation at home in [...]

September 4th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Wordpress | no comments

Web site visibility down the drain???

After attempting to get my site some visibility via search engines and good web practices, I noticed that last week my traffic seemed to die down somewhat (not that there was THAT much traffic to start off with). This coincided somewhat with my change of Wordpress themes so I began by looking at that [...]

August 1st, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Wordpress | no comments