Upgrading to WordPress 2.5 plus a new theme

Since it seems like every other blogger using WordPress has already mentioned it I figure it’s about time I put up a post about the release of WordPress 2.5.
While I’m at it I went ahead and upgraded this site to the new version of WP and changed themes to one called ProSense. [...]

bbPress 0.9 Released

The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software.
It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress [...]

Adsense notifier 0.9.6 released

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Adsense notifier down in my status bar was showing all zeros. At the same time Google started using Ajax in the Adsense pages to show reports, and I assumed the two were related. Since the last time there was a problem with the Adsense [...]

Content Analysis added to Google Webmaster Tools

The Webmaster Tools at Google have a new feature - content analysis. It lists potential problems that were found while Google was indexing your site.
It lists potential problems as issues with the title tag, duplicate meta description, short meta description, long meta description, and something called “non indexable content issues”. The only problem that showed [...]

AdSense ads less clickable

A change in AdSense is making the clickable areas smaller. While before a click anywhere on the ad would take the visitor to the page advertised and credit the publisher with the click, now only the title and URL are live as shown in the graphic below.

My thought is that this change will result [...]