A friend of mine is a registered users of someone else’s blog. She has no admin nor author roles - only Subscriber role which is only good for comments. After joining this blog, she was rather concerned because… 

“I’m slightly horrified. I went to post on XXX’s blog and it said I have to login to post. So I registered thinking I could then post a comment and it took me to her dashboard. I can see her incoming links, and comments.” 

She ended by asking if other registered users on her blog can see that information too. 

Short answer + bad news is, yes. 

Here’s how to change that. In WordPress version 2.5, you can change the Incoming links RSS - so you might want to consider changing it to some other RSS feed. This is the simplest. But still, the ‘block’ in every user’s Dashboard says “Incoming Links” can be confusing. 

Even though overall the

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The WordPress Dev Team released the latest version (2.5) over the weekend. Have you upgraded yet or are you thinking oh no… not another upgrade. I just did an upgrade X days ago.

Yes ma’am WordPress has been really busy. I’m looking at their Releases feed and it’s been crazy. Since May 2007, there has been an update or emergency release almost every month. Some months there were multiple releases to boot.

An administrative nightmare if you run multiple blogs or worse. Like I do, almost all websites are powered by WordPress. You don’t have to upgrade of course, but sometimes you don’t have much choice, for example, security upgrades.

Upgrades to any software is generally a good idea - maybe not bleeding edge upgrades but keeping your software up to date also means you can take advantage of the latest features. One big reason I am a fan of regularly updating is because the longer

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Hi Lynette, My husband and I are setting up a website that we wil be using for a variety of purposes, including affiliate marketing and selling our own information products. 

We’d like to set up a blog and I’m not sure what the difference is between using WordPress, and using a product like Blogger, because with Blogger you can still host it on your own url, and you have the Blogger community access as it were (I have used Blogger briefly in the past, but not WP). 

Another question we have is we know we need a mailing list, and a way to delivery our info products. I’ve taken a quick peek at your WAHMCart, would it integrate with an existing website, or is it the entire website? We have a start up at http://www.quiverfullfamily.com if you want to take a peek, it’s just a skeleton right now. 

We used to sell physical products

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