As of today, we’ve upgraded all our blogs to the latest and greatest version of WordPress: version 2.9.1. This new edition of the blog software features several exciting enhancements. A great video recap is here.

Here are just a few of my favorites, with notes cribbed from Weblog Tools Collection:
Image Editor
You can crop photos, resize them [...]

Hopefully this will fix some of the funkiness we’ve seen with the way the previous iPhone app worked with our install of WordPress:
WordPress 2 for iPhone is now available for downloads in the App Store. The new app is packed with lots of features which include:
A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster [...]

I’ve been getting this question more and more lately. Here’s a quick cheat sheet:

Write your post
click on the little music-note icon above the post
upload the mp3 file like you would an image file
once you’ve uploaded, make sure that the Link URL area is set to link to “File URL”
Click on [...]

Got a good question from one of our bloggers today:
I was wondering if there’s any way to block a user from commenting on my blog. I checked WordPress, but I can’t find anything.
This is pretty easy to do. The setting in question is under SETTINGS –> DISCUSSION. You have the option to blacklist certain people [...]

Weblog Tools Collection has a great post explaining all the in’s and out’s of the WordPress Dashboard — the first screen you see after logging into the blog. In addition to the overview below, they full post explains how you can customize the dashboard by changing the number of columns of widgets, dragging and dropping [...]

A few people recently have asked if there are any instructions on how to schedule posts to publish at a later date — a very useful practice if you’re writing a whole bunch of posts in one sitting and want to space them out, or equally good if you’re going on vacation and don’t want [...]

I’ve been a huge fan of the WordPress for iPhone app ever since it debuted many months back. While the old webapps — for iPhone and other phones — made mobile blogging feasible, if a bit of a chore, the native iPhone app made it incredibly easy to post photos and other contents quick and [...]

You may have heard me mention before how you can speed up your blog with a nifty little addition to your browser called Google Gears. If you haven’t pulled the trigger on Gears yet, or don’t remember how, be sure to check out this little tutorial.
It will only take you a couple minutes to set [...]

I recently did a version of this presentation for the editors at the Courier-Post, and wanted to share it with anyone else who is interested in learning more about our blog strategy. For anyone who’s already blogging heavily on WordPress — most likely, everyone who is checking this site — it’ll seem like very basic [...]

You may have heard the term before — Sticky Post — but what exactly does that mean?
In a nutshell, it’s a way for you to take an important post (be it an announcement, one that’s getting a lot of traffic, or some other kind of content you want to draw attention to) stay firmly attached [...]