WordPress 2.8.2
July 20, 2009
Wow! It’s getting hard to keep up with the releases at WordPress.
No sooner do they release one update with various fixes, than they release another one a few days later with even more fixes. It used to be that you could update to the latest version and then relax for a little while. Now, it almost seems like you’re better waiting for a week or so after a release to see if they offer a newer version still!
What do you do? Do you update as soon as a new release is announced?
Things you never knew
June 24, 2009
If I listed all the things I never knew, well the things I now know but didn’t before, it would be a very, very long list.
What’s most surprising to me is that there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. I mean that every time I learn something new I turn around and find that there’s something else waiting to trip me up until I learn about it.
I’ve just learned that in WordPress you shouldn’t use a permalink structure that I’ve been using for every blog I’ve ever set up! It seems that WordPress operates more slowly if you use a permalink structure like www.myblog.com/my-post-name
Thanks for telling me in advance! I stumbled on the information recently. If you have a lot of posts on your blog then it will impact you far more than someone who only has a few posts, but since it can make a big difference, why on earth isn’t the information made clearer on the permalink settings page?
It’s probably too late for me to change my permalink structure now. I don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up 301 redirects for existing posts (I’m lazy) and in all fairness on a lot of the blogs there will never be thousands of pages – so the impact may only be slight. But it’s something that I’m now aware of and I won’t be making the mistake again.
Talking of blogs, I’ve just seen a promotional email about a new way of using blogs to generate landing pages and sales pages, primarily for PPC campaigns, but they can be use for anything. I don’t want to repeat the post here, but you can read it on my product blog at sublime-products.com
If you’d like to use a WordPress blog to build clean, unobstructed sales pages then it’s worth taking a look at that post.
Free Royalty Free Photos
May 13, 2009
I use a lot of stock photography myself – well, a fair amount anyway – and the cost can soon add up.
Recently, while surfing the web, I came across a great list of resources for free royalty free photos. Rather than repeat the list, let me give you a link to where I found that list.
http://www.affiliatemarketingdiary.com/main/my-top-20-royalty-free-photo-resources/133/
There’s a lot of resources in that list to look through. If you’re thinking of using some stock photography on one of your sites it’s well worth a look.
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