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All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]
One of the biggest mistakes you can make on your blog is not allowing your readers to sign up for your RSS feed—and giving them a way to choose either the option of getting your posts in their reader or by email delivery. You may think you know what it is. You have seen that [...]
Since giving up my Mac to my wife (group awwwww…please) and not using it’s Text Editor, I have been looking for a simple, straightforward, no bloat (thank you @MSchechter for that word) application that I can use for my blogging. Holy Moly Batman, today I discovered just the thing I was looking for and it [...]
If you are thinking of starting a WordPress blog, normally your first decision is to either put up a free blog at WordPress.com or choose to self-host it on a paid server. I used to try to explain it as a WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org kind of thing but, honestly, that is just way too confusing. Okay, [...]
I am a huge fan of contact forms on WordPress blogs and sites, and have been for years. If you go to my site and look at one of my pages, you’ll see what I mean. WordPress has some very nice simple contact form plugins, like Contact Form 7 and Simple Contact Form, but for [...]
Do you like to play with widgets? You know, those little buggers that do so many things for your WordPress blog? If you are on WordPress.com, you get a certain number of widgets to work with. If you are self-hosted, the sky’s the limit—and be forewarned: there are thousands of them out there. In fact, [...]
I just got back from a WordPress conference in Chicago, called WordCamp. It’s where WordPress users, designers and developers get together and share their WordPress love. It’s always fun, with great conversations and connections. I was fortunate enough to be there as a speaker. But as I sat in a session about security and the [...]
Ever sat in your car and looked at the big dial that shows you the RPM’s, wondering why you would even want to know this? Wishing you could put something else there—maybe a large clock, your iPhone, or a picture of the family? When you first opened up your dashboard in WordPress, you might have [...]
I was just reading a colleague’s post on using your own domain at WordPress.com. For example, www.yourdomain.com, rather than www. yourdomain.wordpress.com. Good advice, but it got me thinking of domains. Especially the horror stories I hear. You may be like hundreds, if not thousands of other people out there, and have bought a domain, or [...]
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