Archive for the ‘News and Information’ Category

Reader Question: Is hosting a domain the same thing as maintaining it once it is set up?

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

We recently got this question from a reader Carol: Is hosting a domain the same thing as maintaining it once it is set up? Matt responded with an analogy that describes the difference between a domain, hosting, and maintaining a website. That is a really good question. A domain is like an address to ...

How to use AboutUs.org

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Since our post on your about us page, we have had some questions about how to submit your site to aboutus.org. First, go to http://aboutus.org and put your website's URL (your domain name) into the search field. Once your site is entered, you will be taken to your site's page. The URL ...

Weird data in the First Name field of a user

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Recently a long time friend contacted me because he saw a new user on his site that he did not set up. The user's first name looked like the below two screenshots: Upon viewing the page source, I saw that WordPress has a safety measure in place to html escape all this ...