CMS

As a content management system, the Status.net platform has a few advantages that can leave Twitter in the dust. While its unlikely to become the single largest public platform, the future of micro-blogging is actually likely to be found in niche communities of like-minded members.

Wordpress 2.8.5 is out, and upgrading is the easiest way to keep your sites secure and running strong. Also, if you like trackbacks, you’ll like some of the bug fixes in this release.

Theme options and functions can over-ride your site’s plugins. If it so happens that your dofollow plugin doesn’t work, these steps may help fix the blog comments to include or exclude the attributes you want to edit.

The use of 302 redirects by Wordpress can lead to undesirable search indexing consequences. Luckily, there’s an easy to use plugin that will immediately convert all redirects to 301 http header codes.