Allowing HTML in Wordpress Profile Descriptions

This is a short, technical post on how to solve a problem with Wordpress. I realize it will only apply to some, but it is the answer to those who need it.
The problem is that the profile field for authors in Wordpress is very limiting, by default. It strips all HTML out of the field, [...]

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Battle of the Bloggers, Childish as Hell

One of the talks given at Gnomedex was that of Jason Calacanis. He came to talk about the pollution on the internet, i.e. spam. All of us know about this stuff. It includes email spam and, more pertinent to Jason’s point, search engine spam. His point? That so many businesses are out there practicing SEO [...]

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Wordpress and Curing High Server Load

So far, my recent conversion of PC Mechanic to Wordpress has been relatively trouble free. Of course, that is a matter of context. Switching publishing platforms on a site as large as PCMech isn’t exactly cake. It doesn’t turn on a dime. So, relatively speaking, it has been relatively pain free. However…
One of the things [...]

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How I Converted a Non-Blog Site to Wordpress

This post may have a few follow-ups - because it is a big subject. However, I just last night launched PC Mechanic as a Wordpress -powered website. Easy right? Not so much. PC Mechanic is not really a blog. In fact, it doesn’t even resemble a blog. WebbyOnline (this site) is also Wordpress powered, but [...]

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Blog Comment Spam - A Sign of Popularity?

As my blog sites get more notice, I inevitably get more user comments. WebbyOnline itself has been getting more notice these days, and the last couple of posts have gotten more user comments than I used to get by a long shot. This is obviously good, and any blogger will tell you that it is [...]

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Cross-Linking Multiple Sites - Bad For SEO?

After my little brush-up with Youtube yesterday, we decided to post our new video on Revver instead. BTW, I also got definitive confirmation from Youtube that this is indeed the case. They said:
We’re no longer offering the option to upload videos longer than 10 minutes, regardless of your account type. If you see a [...]

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Blog Monetization, PayPerPost and Ebook Affiliate Saturation

Here is my introductory diatribe from this week’s WebbyOnline newsletter. To get this in your inbox each week, just subscribe in the form at the top of this site.
Oh, busy times. Busy times. As I said last week, I am putting Miraserver development into hyperdrive. And I’m feeling it now since I stayed up last [...]

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Does Don Imus Matter To Us?

The situation with talk show host Don Imus has been getting quite a bit of attention the last few days. The story is very simple, and here it is in summary:

Talk show host says stupid thing. Targets of the comment happened to be black
He gets “called” on it.
Black “leaders” like Al Sharpton act all hot [...]

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New Blog for Pilots

I would like to briefly announce a new blog site to you: Passion Aviator. This is a new site focused on general aviation and pilots. This site is an unofficial part of my blog network. I say “unofficial” because the site was my idea and it sits on my server, however it is completely the [...]

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Solution - Wordpress Theme Reverts to Default (Kubrick)

OK, as some of you may have noticed if you come here every now and then, this site has been periodically reverting to the big, ugly default theme for Wordpress, known as Kubrick. It has been seemingly doing this all by itself. I thought perhaps it was a bug introduced by the Amazon Media Manager [...]

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