We’ve been busy watching our recent changes on Fan History. An incident recently came up and we had a fair amount of behind the scenes discussion on how to handle it. After exploring our possible actions, we analyzed where our desires to take these actions came from. They can best be summarized as follows:
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It’s now a little over a year since the end of The Police’s highly successful 2007-2008 Reunion Tour. So what are they all up to now? It’s interesting to see how the three members of the band have (or haven’t?) been keeping busy since then, perhaps using the tour as a launching pad for new [...]

I love irc. I love irc.freenode.net. There are a number of wiki related chat rooms on there and a month or so ago, an acquaintence introduced me to yourwiki.net. It is a wiki hosting company that is run by a couple of friends. At the moment, they are pretty small and [...]

There are quite a few sites dedicated to extending a helping hand. Some for free, some for a fee.
However, do not forget about the WordPress Support forums! It is a forum that is full of many people who regularly answer any questions that come up, even myself. If you have not signed up there, you [...]

WordPress Tutorial
Sometimes that default Gravatar with the gray and white seems boring. Lucky for you, instead of altering internal WordPres files, you can harness the power of adding a filter to your theme’s functions.php to change your default image to display.
1. Open your template’s functions.php
2. Insert the following code:
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Some people might think it is the number of lines you have to define to edit how long or short your excerpt in your WordPress article. It is not. It is defined by how many words. WordPress by default picks the first 55 words as your excerpt. However, if you wish to edit [...]

Yep! Another WordPress related site. I bet you are either:
1. Rolling your eyes because you think you have seen or read it all.
2. Excited to see another WordPres-related site
3. Neither here, nor there, but you are interested.
Hopefully WPAddict will answer anything you need. If you cannot find it here, perhaps try the WordPress support forums. [...]

Are splash pages really necessary? Well, first off, in order to make a valid case, what is a splash page? A splash page is a website’s entrance page. The splash page contains words or images to briefly convey the mood of the site, like a first impression or like in a business, a calling card. [...]

The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following:
1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them
2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics
3. Those who profess [...]

Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for [...]