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Wordpress 2.9 was released overnight!
Which means a day of upgrades for yours truly and the team, but the good news is that all of our sites, themes and plugins appear to be compatible from our rigorous testing.
Wordpress 2.9 is pushing wordpress further toward the complex multimedia CMS that we know it can be – for [...]

As you probably noticed, we’ve been having some problems this week, to say the least!
On Sunday night, we managed to have a massive hardware failure whereby one of our servers – the one which powers most of the WordPress driven websites – totally fell to pieces. We had to recompile everything from backup after rebuilding [...]

Great News this week in terms of our development and ‘future proofing’ techniques has emerged, including the following hot topics that will see people like you enjoying content from people like us all around the world even more quickly, even more easily and, importantly, for years to come:
We’ve Gone iPhone and iPod Touch Friendly!
Yesterday, thanks [...]

WordPress 2.7.1 has been released and I was around at the very moment it went live, so our flagship sites (Your-Story.org and Remix.vg) were updated within seconds of the latest release going live.
I’m not sure what has changed this time around – looks fairly basic – but is doubtless a good way to prevent any [...]

Highlight the word or phrase you wish to link from.
Leaving it highlighted, go to the chain-link button. If you hover over it, it should say “Insert/edit link (Alt+Shift+A)”. Click on this button.

A box will come up into which you enter the full address of the destination page for your link. In the “target” field [...]

Normal Wordpress
To embed a Youtube video by hand
Go to Youtube, find the video you want to embed. Look for the “Embed Code” and copy it.

Some videos will say “Embedding disable by request”, this means that the copyright owner does not allow people to embed its material on their websites. You will not be able to [...]

Want to tell someone “Happy Birthday” on a particular day or arrange seven posts to publish once a day for a week? Login, then go to “write”. Write your post as normal and then, instead of pressing “publish”, click “edit”. It is next to the little calendar which says “Publish immediately” shown below:

You will then [...]

In order to add pictures, you will need to have access rights of an “Author”, “Editor” or “Administrator”. To add a picture, click on the first button, next to “Add media”. When you hover over it, a box will appear, saying “Add an Image”

You will see this screen appear:

Option 1: To upload photos and images [...]

Click on “Write”

Enter a title in the “Title” box

Write your article in the main box below, as shown:

Scroll down and choose a category or categories by ticking or un-ticking the boxes:

Scroll back up and press “submit for review” or “save” if you aren’t finished yet. If you are an author, editor or administrator, you will [...]

Go to your website. Add /wp-admin/ to the address.

This should take you to your login page:

Enter your details and press “Login”. This will take you to the dashboard.

You will see different things on the dashboard, depending on whether you are an administrator, contributor or subscriber etc…
Log out again by clicking on the “Log Out” link [...]