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Tips for starting a website using WordPress blogging software

Darren Terhune — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:32:15 +0000

With over 5 years of experience with WordPress, the powerful blogging / CMS application used to create millions of websites and blogs around the world, I have seen many, ups, downs, bumps, car jackings, fistacuffs, thrown computers, head bang on walls etc. After just updating my site for, hmm… the 8th time?, I’ve decided to [...]

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iPhone 3g and WordPress rule the blogging world

Darren Terhune — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:32:58 +0000

I picked up an iPhone the first day they came out in Canada and I’m pretty stoked on it! I used to take my computer home from work everyday just to go on the net and check mail, but now I just use my phone. It’s fast and really has some cool apps like the [...]

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WordPress File Upload Error Security Fix

Darren Terhune — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:32:07 +0000

This is an UPDATE to snuff out all the whiny people that have been complaining about how this?‘old school fix’ isn’t the right way. When I wrote this it was around 5 years ago before wordpress had any nifty ways to get around this and before there were any cool plugins to solve the issue. [...]

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How to make files download or load in the browser

Darren Terhune — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:40:55 +0000

This is how to make a file, (.mov, .pdf or in my case a vCard .vcf) download to your desktop instead of loading into the browser window. The problem I had was that my vCard was opening as text in the browser window, which is not useful to anyone. To fix this all you have [...]

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Trouble with Podcasting in WordPress

Darren Terhune — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:55:50 +0000

I’ve been seeing that there are a ton of people that have problems with getting there podcasts to work with wordpress. Good news! It’s not that hard to make it work. You don’t have to do anything in your wordpress setting or pages. All you have to do is add the correct mime types to [...]