When I first started using WordPress back in March, 2006, one of the first bad habits I go into was not backing up my sites. After several nightmarish events where I lost the databases, I decided to back up regularly with two WordPress plugins.
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Create a website or blog from scratch
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WordPress 3 Complete is a new book that explores WordPress as a fully functional content management system. Written by April Hodge Silver, this book is an in-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication with practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress.
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How infectious is the GPL? Battle of words between WordPress and Thesis
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The issue boils down to this. WordPress is licensed under the GPL, which provides that if you derive a new work from an existing GPL-licensed work, the GPL applies to your new work as well.
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Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress
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In the past few days, WordPress has become entangled in a debate about WordPress theme licensing. It was specifically centered around Thesis, one of the last notable proprietary theme holdouts. Chris Pearson, who develops and sells Thesis, refuses to license Thesis under the GNU General Public License that applies to WordPress and all WordPress-derived code.
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Shiny new WordPress 2.9 has undo, image editing features
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WordPress 2.9 was released last week with several compelling improvements, including a built-in image editor.
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How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu - Part 2
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Part 2 in a series showing how to set up the WordPress blogging system on Ubuntu.
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How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu: Part 1
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Part 1 in a 2 part series of step by step instructions for installing WordPress on Ubuntu Linux.
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Open Source CMS market share report 2009
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The 2009 Open Source CMS market share report was released a couple of weeks ago. The report concludes that WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal maintain a large lead on the rest of the pack.
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WordPress 2.8
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If you are in the market for a blogging platform, content management system or a complete web platform, you can do far, far worse than choose WordPress.
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WordPress 2.8.2
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WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.
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How to have wordpress social buttons without plugins
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As the title says, this will walk you through how to have social buttons in wordpress without a plugin, and yes there's a FreeSoftwareDaily button on the site. Feel free to use it on your site.
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Easy Wordpress Installation
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One of the most popular programs for blogs and even content management is Wordpress. What makes Wordpress so popular is the ease of use, flexibility in set up and great support. Wordpress does an excellent job at providing documentation and options for everyday use.
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"...There’s nothing wrong with charging money for the redistribution of this code either. Noone says anybody should provide stuff for free, just because it is GPL’ed “free” software. What the freedom in “free software” means is that anyone who obtains the code also remains at liberty to redistribute the GPL’ed code and charge for it too, if he or she wishes to do so..."
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blog.el - 0.1 - WordPress client for Emacs
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"Hi all, I'm a new Emacs LISP programmer, and I've created a blog client similar to weblogger-mode, but it allows one to type posts in muse-mode. The client is still in primitive stage but at least it allows one to post to web-log. It requires muse-mode{,-html}.el and xml-rpc.el Emacs LISP libraries to be present somewhere in load-path. To use it, follow the instructions below: ..."
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How to have your own tuxtraining.com
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TuxTraining.com has operated for 6 months. Unfortunately, I cannot keep paying for the site.
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