As anyone who knows me knows, I have a special spot in my heart for wordcamp San Francisco, the original!
In fact when it comes to wordpress and Matt Mullenweg I am like a crazed Beatles fan from the 60’s.

This year it has been announced that Wordcamp San Francisco will be on August 16 at the [...]

You will start to notice at some point comments showing up on your site, that are quotes from someone else’s site. If you click on them, you will find someone else who linked to you.
The problem is at least initially, that many of these are actually junk, and here is why.
There are websites out there [...]

The internet lets you create a link from some words on your page, to another page on your site, or a page on another site. When someone clicks on the link, they are taken to another page. If you have made it to the point where you are reading this, you have probably already done [...]

The Internet is a conversation, or at least it can be. One person makes a statement, and someone else speaks back. This conversation can easily take place on a blog, or back and forth between two blogs.
One of the easiest ways to get viewers of your blog is to converse with others with similar, or [...]

Lets say you just published a post, and now realized you misspelled something, forgot the category, or just messed up on your writing.
Go ahead and log in to your site.
Click on Manage.
Click on Posts. This will show all of the posts you have posted, with the new one on top.
Click on the title of [...]

So by this time, I expect that you have posted a few blogs. If you have a standard wordpress installation, then people can leave comments on your blogs. The easiest people to get to do this, are people you know. Say to your friends and family, “Hey, come read this and leave a comment!”
After they [...]

One of the most amazing advancements that comes with blogs that has not been seen much on the Internet before, is the ability to leave comments.
In real life, this would be illegal. You can’t walk out of a restaurant you have been to and just spray paint your opinion on the side of their building. [...]

O.K. so you posted your first new post.
Congratulations!!
A category is simply a way to organize your blogs so someone can find what they are looking for. An example is a famous guy I know who works at google mostly writes about google, but occasionally writes about food, so he has a category called food.
So [...]

Absolute Beginners Blogging Article #1
This is a series of posts I am witting for very beginning wordpress bloggers.
My bloggers are not paid, and their links are for real!
Go to your login page.
It will usually be the address of the blog, followed by wp-login.php.
Here is an example.
httttp:///wwww.thenameof site/yourblog/wp-login.php
Then enter your user name and password. [...]

Elite Retreat was fantastic. One of the best things of all was that on the first day, I got to sit next to Matt Mullenweg in the back of the room. I would have spent $5,000 just for that! When Matt spoke, he spoke about Wordpress 2.5 that had just been released and encouraged us [...]