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WordPressGarage is being scraped! I want to stop them…now!

| January 10, 2008 | 29 Comments

This very blog, WordPressGarage.com, is being scraped by an annoying, lazy SOB who is republishing posts from a range of blogs writing about WordPress and making money off of stupid ads on their site. How dare they expect they can make money off of my hard work without contributing any value. Do ... View Post

Interview with Yedda’s head of Community Marketing about new Feedflare modules for bloggers

| January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yedda is an Israeli start up with a web-based questions and answer service that is generally agreed to rival that of Yahoo Answers. Yedda's technology powers many independent Q&A services as well, including ePals and TheJobNetwork (via ... View Post

WordPress sucks, WordPress sucks not. Which one is it?

| January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

Mark from 45n5.com has posted a short and pointed video about WordPress, and how it sucks. The video is aptly titled "WordPress sucks," and here it is for your viewing pleasure: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BTz-hTvOg[/youtube] David Peralty has responded with his own video on BloggingPro arguing that ... View Post

It’s time to upgrade WordPress

| December 30, 2007 | 7 Comments

I logged in to my blog today only to find a disturbing little message at the top of the screen: "A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now." Yes folks, despite the goal of not releasing any new versions until 2.3, we now are faced with WordPress version 2.3.2, which fixes ... View Post

My posts are getting swallowed up by WordPress

| December 28, 2007 | 9 Comments

Over the past few days, I have written two posts on two different WordPress self-hosted blogs that have disappeared when I pressed save. I couldn't retrieve them. I wrote one of the posts straight in WordPress' text editor, and the other one I wrote in Windows Live Writer. You would think I could go back ... View Post

Does Movable Type’s move to open source spell trouble for WordPress? Nope.

| December 20, 2007 | 0 Comments

Movable Type has announced that they are now, and forever will be, open source. At first, when I heard this, I got nervous. Does this mean that WordPress is on its way out? Could it be that now ... View Post

WordPress vulnerability means don’t save sensitive information in drafts

| December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

Secunia has reported the following vulnerability in WordPress 2.3.1:

Michael Brooks has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and to disclose sensitive information. The application does not properly restrict access to posted drafts

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Almost 1% of all web pages are powered by WordPress!

| November 9, 2007 | 6 Comments

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic, spoke at Blog World Expo on blogging, open source and WordPress. Here are some highlights from his speech, and interesting tidbits about WordPress (from News.com):

Matt says that blogging

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New theme here at WordPressGarage

| November 5, 2007 | 13 Comments

If you're reading this in a feed reader, come on over to WordPressGarage.com to check out our new theme. I felt like it was time for a change, and decided to go with fall colors for this season. Please let me know what you think - do you like it, hate it, ... View Post

WordPressGarage listed as one of Top 40 Blogs About WordPress!

| November 4, 2007 | 6 Comments

I don't know how I missed this, but our very own WordPressGarage has been listed as one of the Top 40 Blogs About WordPress over at WP Themes Gallery.com. We're number 33, which isn't too bad since that means we're not number 40 (always looking at ... View Post