I’ve been running two WordPress sites for several years on 1 & 1 web hosting.  Last year I made a major restructuring of eBabble and in doing so created a new SQL 5 database to keep it separate.  Early this year on eBabble Art I received an error when trying to upgrade WordPress past 2.8.2: that was the last version that would work on a SQL 4 database.  It wasn’t a big deal so I left it at version 2.8.2 and kept going.

With WordPress 3.0 released I decided to finally move eBabble Art to a new …

Backupify is a new online service that backs up your online services and is free to sign up until January 31st 2010.  They provide backup services built on Amazon’s Web Services and supports a range of services including WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs and many more.  Since you can never have too many backups and free is the magic price I signed up.

I was mostly interested in backing up WordPress since I have this site and art.ebabble.net.  It seemed simple enough: add a plug-in and validate the account.  …

This site is made possible because of WordPress.  I had started eBabble.net with NetObjects Fusion many years ago but wanted to move to a platform that would let me add and edit content from anywhere.  My first attempts were with CMS platforms but I couldn’t get the hang of them and somehow managed to stumble upon WordPress.  With every version it becomes easier to use and the plugin community grows: you can pretty much accomplish whatever you’d like with WordPress.
With version 2.8 WordPress has made three big ease of use …

Early this week one of my plugins had an upgrade available but when I clicked to upgrade automatically I received the following: Error 500 – Internal Server Error.  Didn’t give it much thought and tried to log into this site last night and after entering my credentials received the same error: now it was serious.
Searching for the error uncovered one possible fix indicating PHP is running out of memory.  To increase on an ISP that doesn’t give direct access to PHP is to create a PHP.INI file with this line …

I’ve just updated my sites with WordPress 2.1 and I’m impressed with the changes.  Little things here and there, plus notables like major editor reworking and autosave.  If you’re running a WordPress site update now to version 2.1 and enjoy the free software.
WordPress 2.1