WordPress Upgrade in Progress

Tonight I will doing maitainence upgrades to the Educated main site (the front page and the blog, but not Michael P. Web solutions or Mesivta of Roslyn). If things look jittery, come back later and it will look much better.
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Implementing The Real Ultimte Front Page

Previously, I briefly illustrated how using a home.php file can allow you to build a custom layout to your WordPress blog’s home page. However, I didn’t really document it well enough for the casual WP user to implement by himself. For the unknowing of my readers, here is a guide to using my (really Rudd-O’s) […]

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New Attacks: Regstration Spam

Recently, I’ve been observing a new form of spam on my blog. It is coming in the form of vague registrations, with email addresses including Russian domains and strange user IDs. For now, it’s not too bad, so I won’t take serious action. If things do heat up, I’ll look into ways to effectively block […]

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Changes Are Good, But Somethings Don’t Change

My experimenting with my site(s) has brought thousands of changes to it (them). I’ve played with templates and themes, modules, and hundreds of other features and tweaks. But there is one thing I’ve learned (not the hard way, yet): Leave URLs alone. Search engines need URLs to work with your site. If they all suddenly […]

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The Beta Boost

With many of today’s sites, it is common to see a little Beta indicator by the logo. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon. Now although I don’t actively use (or proclaim use of, at least) any beta-version add-ons on this site, I though it would be funny to add beta somewhere here. Take a look at […]

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Best Traffic Booster: Content Is King

After looking through my stats in Google Analytics lately, I noticed a trend in my search engine referrals. Ever since my post about my experience with the Math A Regents, I received dozens of hits from Google and other search engines. In addition, various other posts (including my mention of the Windows XP Royale […]

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Comment Spam: More Than A Minor Annoyance

Although I do have the absolutely wonderful and I-can’t live-without-it Askimet plugin installed here, I still look through the messages it catches every few days. What’s worse than having to waste time even looking at them is trying to ignore what’s in them. Various prescription drugs (I’m keeping things G-rated over here), and links to what I will leave as explicit videos litter the Askimet Spam page litter my screen […]

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Finally Found a New Theme

Browsing a gallery of 700 something themes was not easy or particularly exciting work, but that’s what it took to give my blog a facelift after almost a year with one theme. I spent some time browsing the gallery at Themebot.com, and came across a nice theme. Actually, I didn’t find this one at Themebot, […]

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