ContentRobot

It’s another WordCamp event for the ContentRobot team … we’re headed to NYC tomorrow and can’t wait!

Like at WordCamp Las Vegas, we will be helping at the Genius Bar on Saturday from 12pm-1pm. Grab your lunch and try to stump us with your most perplexing WordPress questions!

Whether you are a newbie (we have a book for that by the way) or a veteran blogger, we can’t wait to meet you. We are looking forward to mingling with themers, developers, and passionate WordPress folks.

WordPress has had a heck of a time trying to stay ahead of evil hackers following the summer of exploits.

Unfortunately, several of our clients had been among those affected, but everyone got back up and running with an upgrade and some deep cleaning.

While version 2.8.4 has been a nice stable offering,  WordPress announced that 2.8.5 or “The  Hardening Release” is now available for download.

According to WP:

The headline changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where

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Rajesh Setty, author of the popular blog (and book) Life Beyond Code, recently has published ThinkTweet Book 1.

ContentRobot was pleased to read his  tweet-sized wisdom on every page.

Here is what we thought of the book (in 140 characters!):

What do you get when you mix Mark Twain’s insight w/ Seth Godin’s biz acumen, and Confucius’ philosophy? A twitterific, fun, and witty read!

We highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to laugh a lot while learning Twitter’s best practices, along with a little business education. We can’t wait… Continue Reading

ContentRobot was excited to be included among the speakers at Affiliate Summit West in 2008, and always enjoyed our special relationship with affiliate marketers.

This morning we got treated to the announcement that the sixth issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes later in the month.

Our team wrote an article called “Five Ways to Keep WordPress Running Smoothly” that can be found on page 28. We also got featured on the cover – wow! Thanks, Shawn and Missy!

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ContentRobot couldn’t wait to dive into our copy of WordPress for Business Bloggers by Paul Thewlis (published by Packt Publishing). While we have our own methodology, we were quite interested in his approach and the advice he has for the business blogger blogger-to-be.

Thewlis chose to navigate the reader through a sample case study, which involved installing and configuring WordPress (version 2.6 as of press time), plugins, and widgets. He also touched upon design, content, promotion, analytics, and monetization, which drove home that blogging isn’t something to jump into lightly.

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