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Five Core Plugins every Wordpress Needs - There are a few core features that each site needs, and the plugins I keep going back to deliver these features just simply work.
Do you get stumped writing new blog content? - Content is an important part of your blog, but how can you prevent getting stumped for new content?
The Hottest Wordpress Theme on the Market just got Hotter - The Theme you use can be very important for multiple reasons, how well did you make your choice?

Upload Permissions for WordPress in Plesk

December 10, 2009

Installing Wordpress is a pretty easy and straight forward task. Sometimes your hosting situation can throw you a few snags. Recently I came across an issue with the Media Upload folder in Plesk. Wordpress would create a portion of the path but not the entire path. The solution while elusive, wasn’t as off the wall as I thought it would be.

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Accessing WordPress functions from external PHP pages

December 9, 2009

So a friend of mine shoots me an email today. She had a front end website, just set of basic pages built with PHP and one of the links on the navigation was a Wordpress blog installed on the same hosting. She wanted to display an RSS feed in the sidebar of the front end website by using a nifty little script called Simple Pie. But the RSS feed to be pulled was the feed from the Wordpress installation. I helped show her a easier method of pulling in the latest feeds. There are always 101 ways to skin a cat. With a single include you can easily gain access to all the Wordpress functions and display your information as you choose.

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Why should you be taking responsibility for your 404 errors?

November 18, 2009

Are you blaming your visitors for getting a 404 error? And more importantly is it really their fault? And even if it is their fault, is it better to take the blame and help them move to a page that does exist, or just go ahead and leave a default error page up and loose that visitor to the rest of the internet?

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Is your Blog Content an online asset, or just part of the problem?

November 7, 2009

You see it all over the web these days. Tons of blogs and websites are forever popping up. The problem is that a lot of them are just garbage sites trying to walk the line between valuable information and getting buyers into their affiliate junk.

Do you really think that you can make your fortune with very little work?

If you want the real rewards, it’s going to take real content, real dedication, real value. You are going to need to produce content that people want to read.

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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 you [...]

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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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