Many people using Wordpress to build themselves a website these days use an automated installer system provided by their server company. These are handy tools but I have 2 problems with them:
1. The version of Wordpress is rarely the most up to date
2. There is what seems a throwaway question that is actually very important [...]

This blog was moved a while ago to a Namesco server and it has been an amazingly reliable service compared to the last one I had. Uptime has been 100% as far as I can tell, and the service is fast and easy to use.
However, one thing that was bothering me was not being able [...]

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WP 2.6 and only had one headache with it. When I updated the database, all my category names disappeared. WP still kept the cat_id numbers on each post but the categories had no name so you couldn’t click through on them.
Investigation in MySQL Admin showed that the table wp_categories [...]

I’m currently about to redevelop a site and want to use Wordpress 2.6 as a full blown CMS. Has anyone done this and what plugins would you recommend in terms of building navigation etc? I don’t really want the thing to look like a straightforward blog so was going to use the pages and sub-pages [...]

This question comes up over and over. I guess it’s because Wordpress include Akismet in their version 2 but you can’t actually activate it without the Wordpress API Key.
Here’s what you do for that API

Go to www.wordpress.com
Sign up for an account there. They make you take up a blog on wordpress.com but don’t worry about [...]

My current bugbear is going to sites (web 2.0 sites especially) and registering, or adding a link or doing something else that gives that site more content then seeing that the link back to my site has had a nofollow tag put on it.
If you want someone to take time to use your site and [...]