What is the, ugh, I hate to even type it: best vlogging system? I have scoped out a few possibilities but would like something fully built for it. [more inside]
posted by wcfields on Dec 2, 2009 - 0 answers

How the hell do I export a Vox blog to Wordpress? [more inside]
posted by Schlimmbesserung on Nov 19, 2009 - 4 answers

My blog is getting bombarded by a new kind of pingback spam. The pingbacks are produced by a WordPress plugin that appears to mine the web for links related to blog content, which then triggers a pingback notification. Can anyone help me identify the plugin, so I can possibly work to block the pingbacks? [more inside]
posted by arielmeadow on Aug 20, 2009 - 2 answers

How does a lowly unpaid blog contributor tell his/her bosses that the whole site needs a major redesign? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 22, 2009 - 10 answers

Backup Blog Posts As Word Documents? [more inside]
posted by chrisalbon on May 31, 2009 - 4 answers

Journal replacement (Wordpress?) – seeking blog software that will allow me to designate categories of users with permissions to view content. [more inside]
posted by dreamphone on Dec 10, 2008 - 7 answers

WordpressFilter: Haven't blogged in about three months, and am considering a return at the same URL, but don't want to inherit all my old spam comments. Would deleting the Wordpress installation at that address then re-installing it essentially reset the spam, allowing me to better control it this time? FWIW, I've been using Akismet, etc., to monitor and catch most spam but would like as clean a slate as possible.
posted by sjuhawk31 on Nov 4, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I force Wordpress 2.6.1 to make a new post private by default? [more inside]
posted by Rabulah on Sep 7, 2008 - 3 answers

I'm trying to add a username in Wordpress that has an apostrophe in it (like Jerry O'Connell). It's telling me this is not allowed. Can I work around this? [more inside]
posted by kerning on Aug 19, 2008 - 9 answers

Book-blog hosting: Is there a free and easy blog host that allows me to use my own Amazon affiliate links? [more inside]
posted by RogerB on Aug 18, 2008 - 10 answers

Are there any tools for posting to multiple WordPress blogs without having to go to each site's control panel? [more inside]
posted by randomthoughts on Aug 13, 2008 - 9 answers

Wordpress/PHP question. I'm working on a Wordpress theme and want to use an algorithm to alter some of the HTML it emits. I've got a general idea of how to do this, and could probably manage a brutish implementation on my own, but my PHP-fu is weak and there is probably a better way. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Jun 30, 2008 - 16 answers

CSS, WordPress Themes, HTML: Trying to custom-design my new blog's design; only three images out of ~10 appearing. [more inside]
posted by reductiondesign on Jun 22, 2008 - 6 answers

I don't like the WordPress 2.5 look and feel. I am not interested in switching CMSes. What are my options for basic postings to my blog with minimal interaction with the WordPress interface? [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Jun 18, 2008 - 11 answers

Blogging software vs. roll-your-own? [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on Jun 4, 2008 - 18 answers

Blog systemFilter: Is Habari any better than WordPress? [more inside]
posted by devlin on Apr 23, 2008 - 7 answers

I run a couple of WordPress blogs. Sometimes a reader will leave an excellent comment. I would love to find a plugin (or an easy method) to highlight these great comments, similar to the way AskMe highlights best answers. I can't figure out how to do this. Do you have any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Apr 18, 2008 - 8 answers

I've recently moved my blog to a collaborative environment and we're using Wordpress (and I have been for over a year now), but I'm having trouble figuring out a way for us to work that is as seamless as possible with the Wordpress install. I need some help figuring out what tools to use! [more inside]
posted by Gideon on Apr 18, 2008 - 7 answers

Is there a blog service that has all the features I need? I've tried Blogger, Livejournal, and Wordpress.com, but none of them seems like quite the ticket. See inside for the 3 features I'm looking for. [more inside]
posted by jejune on Apr 16, 2008 - 32 answers

New blog at Wordpress.com. Would like to use w.bloggar as my desktop editor for posts. Everything's configured properly and looking great, except for this error I get when I start up w.bloggar: "w.bloggar: 401 / Your blog server returned the following error message: / Sorry, you must be able to edit posts on this blog in order to view categories." I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but googling and FAQ digging turn up nothing. What gives?
posted by freudenschade on Feb 21, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I get wordpress to show a post as though it had been published in the future? [more inside]
posted by Happy Dave on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

I've set up a self hosted blog. I've got it looking pretty much how I want it, but I want a javascript based "advert" (it's an animated Kiva.org thing) in the sidebar. The blogging platform is Wordpress, which doesn't allow javascript if the blog is hosted on their servers. [more inside]
posted by Rabulah on Jan 6, 2008 - 5 answers

I gifted my family a Wordpress blog (it's all up and designed and everything). I want a virtual center for our family that now spans the globe and can't get together often. However, how can I get the older coots to not only understand WHAT a blog is but how to use it. They use the interwebs. But only to look up the goofy stuff old people like - like when Murder She Wrote is on. Or to hate on George Bush. But not so much to interact. More inside. [more inside]
posted by tkchrist on Dec 23, 2007 - 14 answers

How can I resize the output of the Tumblr widget to use in my Wordpress sidebar? [more inside]
posted by chorltonmeateater on Nov 20, 2007 - 1 answer

Is there any way to automagically strip anchor tags from externally linked URLs? [more inside]
posted by arielmeadow on Oct 29, 2007 - 8 answers

Very limited webhost features, very fond of content management. Help a student update things easily? [more inside]
posted by betafilter on Aug 11, 2007 - 8 answers

[Wordpress 2.2.1 Filter] How can I make Wordpress stop thinking too much for me when it comes to text formatting, etc? [more inside]
posted by beaucoupkevin on Jul 18, 2007 - 2 answers

I'm running an online symposium using Wordpress, & it is a fixed-term six-week event. After that, I'd like to be able to keep a permanent "snapshot" archive of the site for burning and distributing on CD (for offline reading & passing out at conferences, where there is likely to be no net connection). [more inside]
posted by media_itoku on Jul 9, 2007 - 4 answers

I have a personal blog running under Movable Type. I want to move to WordPress. I've exported the existing entries to a text file, so that's good. However, a couple years ago my previous MT install tanked (similar to this). I cannot access it. I have several years worth of posts that are stuck in a database that I can't get to. I've been gradually moving these by hand to my existing MT install, but that's a pain in the ass. Is there some automated way to crawl/scrape the existing HTML files in order to retrieve these "lost" entries? Some way to break back into a corrupt MT database? Some way to repair it? (The install is BerkelyDB-based.) [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Jun 29, 2007 - 11 answers

Easiest way to cross-post some (but not necessarily all) entries from a WordPress-powered blog to a LiveJournal account?
posted by Robot Johnny on Oct 31, 2006 - 6 answers

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress: Can I pay someone to have it done? [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Jul 18, 2006 - 8 answers

Wordpress install woes. Why can't I get this to worK? [more inside]
posted by Biblio on Feb 7, 2006 - 17 answers

Best spam-fighting solutions for WordPress? [more inside]
posted by Robot Johnny on Dec 8, 2005 - 17 answers

The company I work for wants to get on the blog bandwagon and I need to get things set up. Right now our website is hosted by Verio on a co-located server running Windows. [more inside]
posted by ssmith on Jun 15, 2005 - 8 answers

WordPress users: What plugins have you found useful? My wife and I are both new WordPress users, after an arduous battle to wrest our previous entries from Blogger's paws. I'd like to extend the functionality of our sites, but the number of plugins available is a little daunting. What plugins do you use?
posted by monju_bosatsu on Mar 22, 2005 - 8 answers

I'm a TypePad user, moving to Movable Type. I know that MT is much more powerful, but out of the (virtual) box, it is lacking in a lot of the cool features (book lists, photo albums, blogrolls) that TypePad has built in.

What's the best place for a n00b like me to go to start bringing MT into line with what I had in TypePad? I've been slogging through the MT Plugins site, but if there's an even easier guide out there, I'll gladly admit I'm an MT loser and just paint-by-numbers!
posted by baltimore on Jan 8, 2005 - 11 answers

What good blogging software exists that allows me to create multiple custom entry fields? MT and Textpattern seem to suggest that future versions may have this feature, but is there anything that currently does this easily?
posted by Robot Johnny on Aug 9, 2004 - 11 answers

Is there any good solution for multi-url blog software? I've got a bunch of domains, and I want to run different blogs on each of them, but I don't want to have to install, say, a separate copy of Wordpress for each of them (and then have to go update all of them individually when there's an update). They're all located on the same physical server (linux/Apache).

Any ideas?
posted by Caviar on Jul 15, 2004 - 7 answers