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Customizing Wordpress: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

22. March 2010

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The greatest single feature of Wordpress is how easily it can be customized.  As a matter of fact, you’ve probably been on websites that you did not even realize were powered by Wordpress. WP is much more than a blogging platform.  It can be a full-blown CMS.  All it takes is some elbow grease. With that in [...]

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Top 5 Best Twitter Plugins for Wordpress

16. March 2010

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Twitter integrations into Wordpress blogs are all the rage these days.  It is the most commonly asked for feature among our clients. With that, here are the Top 5 Twitter Plugins for Wordpress. 1) Twitter Widget Pro: This plugin creates a sidebar widget with tons of configurable controls to adjust the Twitter feed’s display.  You can also control [...]

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Start Building Your Email List Today

14. March 2010

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How big is the email list for your blog? Wait…what do you mean you don’t have a list? You have no idea how much traffic, loyalty, and revenue you have already missed. If you have a fairly new blog, you’re off the hook.  I will just assume you did not know any better. However, if your site has been [...]

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Get Your Blog Hosted for Free

10. March 2010

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I always encourage bloggers that want to take themselves seriously to get their own hosting, and manage their own site. The most common pushback I get is the price of hosting. You can get your blog hosted for free. It is pretty easy.

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Cache Your Wordpress Blog to Make it Faster

8. March 2010

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What's the most common problem that growing blogs always run into? Their Wordpress site needs to be cached in order to handle the growing influx of traffic.

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How to Make Your Own Wordpress [Shortcode]

5. March 2010

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Making your own custom Wordpress shortcode is actually very easy to do. All you need to do is add a little bit of code to your site to generate a new Wordpress shortcode.

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Adding Social Networking Buttons to Your Blog or Website

2. March 2010

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If you are sick of hearing about social networking, join the club.  However, there is real value in the traffic that it can generate for your site.  Does that mean you need to add social networking buttons to your blog or website? Probably. But don’t go crazy. You should care about the traffic that can be generated by [...]

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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

5. January 2010

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If you are not the tech savvy type, I'd be willing to bet your site loads slower than it should. Most amateur bloggers (and some professional ones) are not very good developers. Here's where I would normally make the case for hiring a firm like BlogCraving to handle these things for you, but this time I will spare you. Let's just jump right to the point and find out if your site is a load hog.

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