Old media websites - Misers linkers (Photo by vagamundos)

Traditional media have large online presence, with their official websites (referred to as old media websites). Such official websites

Happy holidays! (Photo by Z.Klein)

Blogging is a passion and fun activity for most. Most bloggers start off with great energy, and write several posts every week initially. However, it has been observed that the passion wanes soon when bloggers realize that blogs do not grow as quickly as they anticipated, and writing for their blogs may even become a chore.

Considering

WordPress provides two ways to export your data (for moving to a new server, for example). The easiest option would be to use the WordPress export functionality (WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR) from within the administration panel (Manage > Export). Another option would be to get your hands dirty (slightly) and export the database and later import it at your new

WordPress’ post editor (found in Write Post page) is quite handy, and uses the TinyMCE visual editor for its WYSIWIG editor for its visual mode of writing.

However, being web-based, it has its share of woes too. Apart from wrecking with posted code, it also has one other fatal flaw that I realized a bit too late - which is why I

Fantastico De Luxe, the automatic web-scripts installer that is used by many hosts under the name ‘one-click installs’, has been updated to 2.10.4

The previous version of Fantastico included WordPress 2.5, which included security issues. WordPress had been updated to version 2.5.1, which is now part of Fantastico.

If your WordPress install was done by Fantastico, upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 as soon