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Finding, fixing broken blog links

After blogging for six years — and this is post 2,664 — I have many (600+) broken links and missing images.
I found this plugin, which seems to be quite good at finding the dead-ends. For other WordPressers ready for a little housekeeping.

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.7

What a sharp looking piece of software, with several improvements that I already appreciate. For instance, I am writing this blog post from within the dashboard — no burrowing down a couple of levels to do the one thing that brings me to the admin side of my blog the most. Can zap spam from [...]

WordPress bloggers: categories or tags

A little word to my fellow bloggers: if you have a new version of WordPress, you’ll see how you have a choice between categories and tags. What’s the difference?
In short, you plan categories; tags are ad hoc. I would think you would have more tags than categories.
Unitarian Universalist Association would be (here) a category; when [...]

Now WordPress 2.5, playing with widgets

I’ve upgraded the software behind this blog to WordPress 2.5 and (like everyone else I’ve read who has an opinion) I love it.
Now I just need to figure out how to automate the sections in the sidebar, making them into widgets. Those are modular tools that I can add or remove from a control [...]