How To Keep your Endorsement and Testimonial Ads i...

Some of our clients are concerned that they are not in compliance with the new FTC “marketing disclosure” regulations. If your website or blog features testimonial ads or endorsements, you should be aware it is now necessary to disclose all “material connections” (payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers. These are often connections that consumers would not expect.  For instance, the post...

Fix WP Post Thumbnail JSON Response Parse Errors...

I’ve been using Stanley Yeoh’s great WP Post Thumbnail plugin for quite some time now.  It provides an easy to use interface for cropping and editing post thumbnails for use in your custom WordPress themes.  He’s recently released a beta version of the plugin for testing with the latest 2.8 release of WordPress. UPDATE: It appears this is broken again when upgrading to WordPress version 2.9.2.  Currently...

Moving WordPress to a New Directory or Domain...

When you build a blog or site using WordPress, you usually develop it in a subdiretory of the domain where it will ultimately reside or on a completely separate development server with a different domain or even just an IP address.  When you first install WordPress in your development environment, you have to tell it the URL where it will reside even though this will change when the site is pushed live. There’s...