Corporate types will tell you meetings are a necessary evil. Solo freelancers will tell you meetings are cancerous. Al Pittampalli will tell you that we have too many meetings and far too many bad meetings. While technology has certainly helped … Continue reading
Security Notice: Timthumb
We were notified of this security issue (http://blog.vaultpress.com/2011/08/02/vulnerability-found-in-timthumb/) last night and have been working with Firehost then and today on patching all timthumb.php files with the fix. Page.ly customers do not need to do anything further, except keep being awesome. … Continue reading
Better Writing By Reading
Writing is a glamour profession, right? The endless parties, the traveling and the fancy cars all writers have access to allow us to write fantastic pieces that inspire and delight. What, you thought writers make up everything? Okay, I’m lying. … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 Phase 1 complete
Thank you for your patience this weekend while we made some needed changes to the system. We had originally scheduled this process for Friday night but had to postpone to Sunday night. However the maintenance went off without a hitch and only about 27 … Continue reading
UPDATED Scheduled Maintenance Sunday Night – 1-4 hours.
[Update] We are postponing this event until Sunday night. The Data synchronization is taking longer than expected. As part of our upgrade to the new page.ly 3.0 platform we will have a maintenance window this evening beginning around 12:00am CST. The window will … Continue reading
Stay Writing, My Friends
Of all the questions writers, marketers and communicators get from people just starting a blog or trying to maintain one ask, there’s one that stands out above all others. It’s a fairly obvious question, so obvious you’d think people would … Continue reading
Own Your Content
Social networks like Facebook and Google+, along with free blogs like Blogger, Tumblr and Posterous are deceptive ways to share posts. They have built-in audiences, are easy to set up because of a lack of real options and let you … Continue reading
WP 3.2.1 and HCS plugin re-arrangement.
We have updated all sites to WordPress 3.2.1 and moved two plugins into a new mu-plugins folder. The HCS management plugin and login-lockdown have been moved to a new folder in which they will be “always on”. If you see … Continue reading
DB issues. 7/13
Not a great way to wake up (west coast) or spend your first coffee break (east coast) to see your page.ly powered website unable to connect to the database. The bad news: The database nodes were refusing connections for about … Continue reading
Fight Night! El Chupacabra Luchador intro video.
This is not our El Chupacabra Luchador, but possibly an adoring fan making a tribute video. Either way it is the most awesome thing ever to grace the interwebz.
Page.ly Hires Employee #2 “El Vaquero Furioso”
Pleased to announce that we have added a new team member. El Vaquero Furioso will be leading customer support for the most part thru our Zendesk instance. When we went looking for a WordPress stud to help us with support part … Continue reading
WordPress 3.2 is here.
WordPress 3.2 is here. Kudos to the WordPress team for another fine release. 3.2′s biggest change is likely the admin dashboard that has been restyled. All customers are free to update their website as they wish. All NEW page.ly sites … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 system moves into testing.
It’s been a 10 week process of sever setup and app re-factoring, but today our new infrastructure system is moving from active development into active testing. This is kind of a big deal for us. Our company has grown from … Continue reading
WordPress 3.1.4 security release, page.ly sites updated.
The WordPress team just released 3.1.4 as a security release. Page.ly customers, please relax and take a stroll in the park or do something else pleasant. We have already updated about 60% of the sites and the remaining will finish over … Continue reading
WordPress.org plugin mischief. Page.ly not affected.
Yesterday the fine folks at wordpress.org announced they discovered and quickly fixed a security issue with a few key plugins, 1 of which we use on all page.ly sites. Kudos to the core team The likelihood of this affecting our sites was … Continue reading