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.