WordPress 2.6 Available

That was a really quick turnaround from 2.5 to 2.6. I seems like I just got all of my WordPress sites updated to 2.5.1 and last night I logged in and saw a message that WordPress 2.6 was ready for download. Looks like I’ve found a project for today.
But since we’re here anyway, [...]

How to install WordPress 2.5.1

WordPress is a insanely popular blogging platform, and with every release it gets better. It’s also very easy to install, even for those who have never installed a CMS on their server before.
The first step is to head over to WordPress.org and download the WordPress file. Click on the Download button on the [...]

Turning off nofollow for blog comments

We’re going for a little experiment and going to turn off the rel=nofollow setting for comments. Well, for some comments. I found a WordPress plugin called Link Love that turns off the nofollow setting on links after the commenter has posted 10 comments. 10 seems like too many so I dropped the [...]

Adding a forum to a blog

I’ve been debating adding a forum to FBW for a while now. This weekend I decided it was time. Sure, there’s not as much traffic here as I would like and that’s probably going to lead to a fairly slow start to the forum. But every board’s got to start somewhere, right? [...]

bbPress sidebar widget for WordPress

This is my first shot at writing a sidebar widget for WordPress. Not much complexity here but it does its job well.
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I recently added a forum to this site and needed a clean way to display login / logout, register, and profile links. The sidebar seemed the most likely place to have these [...]