WordPress: to auto-update, or not to auto-update?

WordPress.org is currently taking it’s WordPress 2014 survey.  Now is the chance to have your say, sort of.  After 20-odd check box questions, I finally got 1 text-area box to expound on what I really think, and I did: Q.22 No, I do not use the Android App, because the…

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The WordPress White Screen of Death — Don’t Panic!

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…

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Translation Flags or Not Translation Flags

Although I live in Tucson, Arizona, and most people here expect that if you’re bilingual, you speak English and Spanish, the luck of my particular circumstances has enabled me to develop web sites for several individuals and groups who speak various Eastern European languages. Add on top of that a…

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The Amazing Versatility of WordPress

If you want a web site that puts you more in touch with your customers than a few unchanging static pages, then the open source WordPress Content Management System might be just the ticket for you. It enables people who don’t like getting bogged down in HTML and Javascript to…

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