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Announcing Our Latest Service: BlogOnCloud9 (WordPress Hosting!)

Karen Jackie — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:21:12 +0000

ContentRobot is pleased to announce our newest service: BlogOnCloud9.

What is it? BlogOnCloud9 is the premier destination to host your WordPress blog. Bloggers can get the best of both worlds and take advantage of a scalable “cloud” hosting plan coupled with expert WordPress support from ContentRobot.

BlogOnCloud9 will support bloggers every step of the way.

We’ll help to solve any issues that arise – from perplexing WordPress problems to optimizing your hosting environment.
We’ll give bloggers their own custom WordPress installation (you won’t find any unintelligent “one-click” installs here).
We’ll encourage bloggers to install any plugin, theme, or widget

The 5 Best Things About WordCamp Boston

Karen Jackie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:36:32 +0000

The ContentRobot team really enjoyed WordCamp Boston this past Saturday. Here’s what we liked best:

Meeting Other Passionate WordPress Developers: The RocketGenius team, developers of the awesome Gravity Forms plugin, are a smart, fun bunch. We look forward to working with them more.
Shaking Hands With One of Our Favorite Clients: Nine Lives Media’s Amy Katz took part in a session called “WordPress Powers My Startup” and she rocked it. We finally got to meet her for the first time ever and it was very cool.
Cool Giveaways: The schwag was really nice,

ContentRobot is ready for WordCamp Boston!

Karen Jackie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:25:37 +0000

We are excited to be attending WordCamp Boston on January 23rd.

This time around we are not doing any Genius bar duties, but we plan enjoy the show fully. There’s so much to do from the Unconference to Ignite WordCamp so it looks like it’s going to be a great event.

We are lucky to know so many good WordPress developers and designers, but we are always up for meeting more. We can’t wait!

WordPress 2.9.1 Released!

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:29:10 +0000

Last night Automattic released WordPress 2.9.1 and ContentRobot is recommending that it’s a perfect time to upgrade your blogs.

This version fixes some bobbles from 2.9 (scheduled posts and pingbacks were not processed correctly on some hosts) along with a handful of minor issues.

Don’t hit that button without us – we look forward to helping you update to this latest WordPress release.

Happy New Year – 2010 is almost here!

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:06:58 +0000

As the year (and the decade) comes to a close, we want to share some special year-end wishes with our wonderful clients, partners, friends, and readers. We are glad to have you with us.

We hope that 2010 brings you peace and happiness in your all business and personal endeavors.

Happy New Year!
Dana & Karen

Waking up to WordPress 2.9

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:17:42 +0000

Sometimes its the surprise gifts that are the best. While not exactly under our tree, we woke up to read that Automattic released WordPress 2.9 yesterday (here’s is the official announcement).

What comes in the shiny, new package?:

Global undo/”trash” feature - bring back any posts and comments that were accidentally deleted (Matt Mullenweg said this was his favorite feature at WordCamp NY last month)
Built-in image editor – crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images as you are writing (we’ve been waiting for this one for a while)
Batch plugin update and compatibility checking –

Have You Upgraded to the Latest WP Yet? 2.8.6 is Here!

Karen Jackie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:06:39 +0000

It’s a great time to upgrade your WordPress blog today. Automattic has released 2.8.6, which patches some more security holes. According to WordPress’s blog:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for

ContentRobot Invades WordCamp NYC and the Genius Bar Tomorrow

Karen Jackie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:04:46 +0000

It’s another WordCamp event for the ContentRobot team … we’re headed to NYC tomorrow and can’t wait!

Like at WordCamp Las Vegas, we will be helping at the Genius Bar on Saturday from 12pm-1pm. Grab your lunch and try to stump us with your most perplexing WordPress questions!

Whether you are a newbie (we have a book for that by the way) or a veteran blogger, we can’t wait to meet you. We are looking forward to mingling with themers, developers, and passionate WordPress folks.

Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.5 and Patch Those Security Holes

Karen Jackie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:41:24 +0000

WordPress has had a heck of a time trying to stay ahead of evil hackers following the summer of exploits.

Unfortunately, several of our clients had been among those affected, but everyone got back up and running with an upgrade and some deep cleaning.

While version 2.8.4 has been a nice stable offering, WordPress announced that 2.8.5 or “The Hardening Release” is now available for download.

According to WP:

The headline changes in this release are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.

Removal of areas within the code where

Meet ContentRobot at BlogWorld Expo #bwe09

Karen Jackie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:35:54 +0000

ContentRobot is getting ready to head to Las Vegas for the biggest conference in our industry: BlogWorld Expo. We are excited catch up with old friends, clients, and colleagues!

There are so many good sessions to attend, the show floor looks packed with great companies, and (of course) the parties are legendary.

If that wasn’t enough, WordCamp Las Vegas, will also be inside the conference! We are honored to be taking part of the Genius Bar on Saturday from 2PM-4PM, so there is no excuse not to come over and say “hi!”

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