Monthly Archive for October, 2009

We’re the con­fob­u­lated mug­wumps with snoo­gies this week on Word­Cast! Dou­glas Hanna of Automat­tic joins us to talk about the Word­Press Show­case and the behind the scenes of Word­Press “cus­tomer” ser­vice. We’ve also got the lat­est news in the Word­Press and blog­ging world from more Word­Press 2.9 news to the return of Small Potato. PLUS: New guide­lines from the United States Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion could mean fines up to $16,000 for blog­gers if they don’t dis­close their paid posts.

• Word­Press 2.9 Fea­ture Frozen (Mostly) and Beta Test­ing Com­ing Soon
• Small Potato is Com­ing Back!
• Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion Announces Guide­lines For Paid Reviews and Endorse­ments – You COULD be Fined $16,000
• Guest: Dou­glas Hanna of Automat­tic on the Word­Press Showcase
• Links From Our Chat With Dou­glas:
  • The Word­Press Showcase
  • Mod­elinia
  • R&W Mon­son and Neu­tral Bay Real Estate
• Word­Press Tip of the Week: Fix your Author Names
• Kym’s Pick: Cute Pro­files
• Dave’s Pick: Sim­ple Organization

Email Ques­tions:

I recently started a new self-hosted Word­Press blog and wrote my first post but then real­ized that my posts weren’t show­ing up prop­erly. If I align text or images these are not in effect on the pub­lished ver­sion. Can you sug­gest a pos­si­ble fix and do you know if it may have some­thing to do with the theme I am using? — Jonny

Twit­ter Questions:

Is there a way to make Flickr posts into indi­vid­ual blog entries on Word­Press? I couldn’t fig­ure out how to make blog­ger do this. — @missemmacat

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