Just download version 2.6.5 at www.wordpress.org and place it temporarily on your desktop. Then, FTP all of the files to your Wordpress blog. That’s it. No need to take your blog off-line or anything else.

Incidentally, Wordpress warns against trying to use a version 2.6.4 that’s floating around online. That is a fake version of Wordpress.

1. People don’t invite you out—they go without you and livetweet you about it.
2. Because you instantly tweet about everything you do, you no longer see the point of confessing in church. 
3. You know where the Twitter Anonymous 12-step meetings are held (“Hi, my name is @, and I’m a Twittaddict…”).
4. You gossip like a complete Twit: “What a failwhale! Her mistweeted tweetahead retweet got her uninvited from the tweetup and the twitcast. With tweetard twittiquette like that she’ll never be in the twitterati twibe.”
5. You never do anything without first considering how Twitterrific it will sound on Twitter.
6. You lie about how much you Twitter to keep your friends and loved ones from trying to organize a Twittervention against you. You are always jumpy when you go out, afraid they will throw a net over you and pry your blackberry away.
7. Everyone knows that while you’re technically still married, your spouse is actually a “Twittdow” (Twitter widow).

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The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. Like WordPress 2.5, this is a radical release. Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.

Termed “Crazyhorse” at the beginning of the cycle, the WordPress admin is the result of complete thinking outside the box, research and user testing. The concept began as “Let’s throw everything away that we assume to be proper and correct and see what we can come up with when we have no preset conditions”.

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What a site map generator does is create the illusion of a much larger and more active, multipage site, and a whole lot more appealing to search engines.

As a supplement to Akismet, consider installing Bad Behavior by Michael Hampton. Bad Behavior has proven to be effective in blocking spambots and new automated spam attacks against Wordpress blogs.

Michael requests a small donation, and Bad Behavior is worth it.

What Lijit offers is an easy to use and customizable variety of widgets that work to mashup your blog’s content with other online resources in a manner that only enhances the value of your blog. Lijit works flawlessly on Wordpress.