Somehow, in the last week or so, a hacker compromised the DDC family blog website and Google was tracking all of our pages as gambling and poker websites. This was due to a small security failure window on older versions of Wordpress. We are now running the most current version of Wordpress.
There is a lot more functionality and security with this version. I encourage you to do a post and play around. You really can’t break anything. Probably what would be best is to overview all of this at an FHE sometime.
One thing I do want to highlight is the addition of GRAVATARS! (Notice you can change font color now - please keep in mind a whole post in pink will blind our eyes!) This places a picture of your choosing next to any comments you leave. In order to able this function, you need to sign up at Gravatar and upload a picture. Make sure to use the email address associated with your Wordpress login or it won’t work.
Some other highlights:
- Addition of “tags,” i.e. keywords about your post.
- New layout/interface.
- Ability to write a post and schedule it for posting on another date.
- New upload media interface in the “write post” area.
Anyhow, this has been a long time coming. I’m sorry for the delay, but you know how life gets. Busy, busy, busy. Make sure to get a gravatar and I’ll see you at the reunion.
See how my face appears next to the comment I just left! Yahoo! BTW, check out the cool new Archive section. That way you can reminisce about when Barb and Dwight were in Laos and people other than Barb, Kim, myself, Amy and Sandy would check, comment and write on the blog.
Oh SNAP.
I was wondering if we really had FHE anymore. I really don’t think we’ve had one since December at my house. Anyway, a tutorial would be great! I can’t wait to see everyone at the cabin. Come early and join the fun. I think we also need to have a review on how to use the blog, because everyone must have forgotten how. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt, I know they are really just SLACKERS!!!
Don’t worry, Kim. I just tried to show Sandy all the things that I worked on ALL DAY at and she gave me the proverbial bird finger. Reeeaaaaal niiiice. Man. Women: Can’t live with ‘em; can’t live with ‘em.
LOL!