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I have read on a website that there’s an important security update for WordPress. My blog is bestlinen.wordpress.com. Do I need to upgrade it? If so, how do I go about it?

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I hate not having word count with this new WordPress. Is there anything I can do?

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I was looking at your profile on LinkedIn and noticed that you had your blog posts displayed there too. Can you tell me how you did that?

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I have been trying to put Google video on on wordpress page with out success. Any ideas? Help?

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GoDaddy’s Deluxe hosting allows for multiple websites all under one account. The way they do this is by pointing the domains to subfolders within the root. But, this poses a problem when trying to activate the permalink structures for these new sites since the 404 handling is pointing to the main root folder instead of your domain’s root folder. I’m searching for a way to rectify this issue since I have quite a few clients in this situation. Any ideas?

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My WordPress blog has recently been telling me it’s outdated and there’s a new version of WordPress. I had installed it using Fantastico on my hosting panel, how do I go about upgrading it?

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The blog of the day over at PPP has a post up about how our blogs can be hacked. I guess with the last WP upgrade there was a security issue and many hackers took advantage of it. Do you think I should be concerned enough to contact my host and figure out how to see if my sites have been hacked? If so, how do I find out and fix it?

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I’m not getting my comments emailed to me any more. I use WordPress 2.5.1 I still get emails that I have comments pending. I’m not sure when this stopped. What should I check?

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