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In a previous post, I wrote about 10 creative ways to use Drop.io. Drop.io is a free online file sharing/collaboration service.
One of the ideas was using Drop.io’s voicemail as a way to let visitors leave audio comments.
Audio Blog Comments—A New Idea?
Short answer, no.
The idea of audio comments isn’t new.
Paul Boag, of the excellent Boagworld, allows [...]

Previously, I wrote an article about the dangers of publishing blog posts from your admin account.
If you’ve changed the default WordPress admin user name from ‘admin’ to something else, great. However, if you write a post as the admin, your new admin username will be displayed on your blog. Not good.
In order to help you [...]

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Updated: 12/04/2009–Note: This information applies also to pages as well as posts.
Anytime you see suggestions for making your WordPress install more secure, you’re gonna see the regular suspects:

Change your database table prefixes
Update WordPress and WordPress plugins regularly
Change the default WordPress admin username

These are all good suggestions that you should certainly be doing [...]

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Lately, I’ve been using Thematic–a framework for building WordPress themes faster.
Thematic gives you a solid, bare-bones theme with reset CSS styles, a very basic layout, no color and limited typography. A clean slate.
Don’t Touch That Theme!
To create your theme, you don’t actually edit any of Thematic’s theme files. Instead, you make [...]

The CyStats plugin is a great statistics plugin for WordPress. It has a ton of nice features, is easy to scan and displays all relevant stats (sans RSS feed stats) right from the WordPress backend.
The only problem I have is that it’s only viewable to registered WordPress users with an admin role. Editors, Authors and [...]