WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Failure

WordPress 2.9 Upgrade Failure

WordPress 2.9 was recently released, and there were some huge improvements made — which I’m really excited about. But, as anyone may know, there’s always a bug…somewhere.
This time, it happened to be a failed upgrade process.
In brief, there were some database queries that shouldn’t have been added, but they were. So some people …

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Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Add a Message to Plugin Updates

Frederick Townes is both the CTO of Mashable and a friend of mine. He’s always doing new and cool things with WordPress. One of his latest and greatest creations is W3 Total Cache, which we utilize here on WP Vibe. Here’s a little something he did recently that is really cool.
He added …

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WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

WordPress Google Analytics Plugin

Google Analytics is one of many analytics platforms available for free. Google Analytics used to be what was called Urchin, which was acquired back in 2005; and then Google made it a free offering. GA is a very flexible and extensive free analytics platform.
It’s easy to integrate Google Analytics code into your site, …

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HOWTO: Thumbnails for Categories

HOWTO: Thumbnails for Categories

Customizing a post with a fresh and unique thumbnail is a nice touch as it adds just a bit more personality to the post, rather than having the same ole’ images or not having images at all. Here on WordPress Vibe, we have thumbnails for each post, which both Dre and I really like …

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Take a walk with Designer and PHP Programmer Travis Ballard

Take a walk with Designer and PHP Programmer Travis Ballard

WordPress is about a lot of things, Code is Poetry, an artistic form. Design, code, photography play a huge roll in the success of WordPress. Travis Ballard is a seasoned PHP programmer, WordPress Dev, Photobug, Design guy, and more. I had the opportunity to sit down with Travis recently and here’s what came from our …

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WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 Released

WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 Released

Day by day we get closer to the full release of WordPress 2.9. Today WordPress released the 2nd round of its latest Beta. Join the fun, the download is now available.
The folks at WordPress have also ask that if you are continuing support for themes or plugins you’ve developed, that you ensure they work properly …

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WPVibe Holiday Vibe Pack Giveaway

WPVibe Holiday Vibe Pack Giveaway

Congratulations to Danielle (@alex_friday) on winning the first Vibe Pack Giveaway. Best of luck & Happy Holidays!
It’s that time of year again, when you hear it’s that time of year again. This is our first holiday season here at WPVibe and we’re in the spirit, so we’ve decided to put together a small giveaway.
WPVibe is …

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WordCamp NYC 2009 Wrap-up

WordCamp NYC 2009 Wrap-up

WordCamp NYC was a huge success, in my eyes. Jane Wells and Steve Bruner did an amazing job at organizing a two-day event. They had some amazing sponsors to help make it a huge success.
A couple of the highlights for me were mostly networking related, such as meeting Ryan Duff, ShaneF, Matt Martz, …

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Lockdown Your WP-Admin with “Login Lockdown”

Lockdown Your WP-Admin with “Login Lockdown”

Login Lockdown is a great added security plugin. If you feel you have people trying to guess your password to login to your site, this plugin will be a great fit for you.

So some of the options includes max login attempts, retry time restrictions, lockout length, along with lockout invalid usernames and masking login …

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WordPress Vibe Veterans Salute and e-Book Giveaway

WordPress Vibe Veterans Salute and e-Book Giveaway

In Celebration of Veterans day and the recent launch of WordPress Vibe, we are holding our first official giveaway.
This week marks the release of a new WordPress book named “Digging Into WordPress” by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr.
I had the opportunity to catch up with Chris this week and he has been kind enough to …

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