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Five Core Plugins every Wordpress Needs

November 6, 2009

I’ve been running many blogs, I have even built many websites for customers using Wordpress. This includes using Wordpress as a CMS, or as a blog system. In every case there are a few core features that each site needs, and the plugins I keep going back to deliver these features just simply work.

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Are you suffering from Wordpress Plugin overload?

November 4, 2009

One of the things I like best about Wordpress is how lightweight it is. It’s simple, it does it’s job, highly customizable. Plus, even though it is simple it can be made to be much more complicated through the use of plugins. You can add just the features and abilities that you need for your site.

You know a spoiler might improve the performance of a race car, but not if you attach 15 of them. Is there such a thing as to many plugins? How many is to many? How does it affect the speed of your website?

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Redirecting Feed to Feedburner with htaccess

November 4, 2009

In anything I do with a website I always keep overhead in mind. Redirecting your RSS feed to Feedburner can easily be done with a htaccess redirect. It doesn’t have the overhead of a plugin, and it does the job. And in the process I learned a quick little lesson about just trying to save time by grabbing others code.

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Are you Brainstorming to “Feed” Content Ideas to your Blog?

November 2, 2009

There is no reason for me to beat the dead horse about how important content is for your site. If you are running a blog it’s really obvious,how do we brainstorm for new content ideas? Especially if you are running a quality niche blog, it can be really easy to run out of “hot” topics for your niche. Did you know you can customize your Wordpress Admin with aggregated content about your topic for idea surfing?

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The Hottest Wordpress Theme on the Market just got Hotter

October 27, 2009

I’ve been working with Wordpress it seems like forever. I’ve tried so many different Wordpress Themes that I couldn’t count them all.
You have free ones, and if you try them you know you get what you pay for. But free ones can still work if you are a developer, they’ll at least put [...]

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Woh, No One Knows What a Browser Is?

October 27, 2009

I was scanning my usual news online today, and I stumbled upon something I find hard to believe. But strangely if I think about it, I guess it actually makes sense. Google did a recent random survey in Times Square, New York. There is a little video floating around on YouTube that is worth the watch, It’s pretty funny.

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Do you get stumped writing new blog content?

October 26, 2009

Content is an important part of your blog.
There are always arguments online, SEO is more important, Content is king, etc. But regardless of the debate, when talking about a blog, content is important. Without content nobody has a reason to visit.
But do you ever get stumped trying to write new blog content. You [...]

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Free Backlinks Using Social Bookmarking

October 25, 2009

If you’ve studied SEO techniques at all you already know how important it is to have backlinks to your site. Doesn’t really even matter what kind of site you have, links from other sites to your site is how the search engines find you. In addition once you are found the search engines [...]

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Turn Wordpress Into A Sales and Listing Building Machine

August 31, 2009

Wordpress IS the ultimate content management system and it’s progressing more with every update. On top of that, more and more very cool plugins and themes are being developed to help make your Wordpress sites the best they can be.
I did a post a while back about using Wordpress as a salesletter for your products [...]

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Publish Your Blog On Amazon

August 19, 2009

Now this is very cool! I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the “Kindle” from Amazon.com right. Well, this new tech-toy has been getting bigger and bigger as time goes by and many people are actually making some pretty good cash with it.
Not only that, BUT – you can now also publish YOUR blog right [...]

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