About a month ago, all the admin sides of all WordPress sites I manage started displaying notices that WordPress 3.0 was available, please upgrade.  I keep each site automatically backing up its own database, so I ploughed ahead, confident I could fix anything that could go wrong, even if I had to rebuild it from [...]

In the last few months, I’ve been called upon several times to recover web sites from hacker damage.   Two were WordPress sites , and one was a Joomla site that was repeatedly hacked.  Some hacks are pretty funny — some teenager strutting his testosterone by replacing your front page with some piece of insulting ascii [...]

  I have a customer who is just not happy with her WordPress web site. While the template customization turned out even more beautiful than I expected, and the wiz-bang plugins it’s running turn it all to magic, it is just not presenting her large inventory of products the way she envisioned. Not only that, [...]