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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

January 5, 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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How To: Different Homepage and Single Post Sidebars

May 27, 2009

One of the more frequent questions we get is how to have different sidebars on the inside of a Wordpress blog than there are on the Homepage.  It is a pretty simple fix, but there isn’t a ton of complete instruction available for it.  So we created this tutorial.
You probably already know about your sidebar.php [...]

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Images Have Great SEO Value

May 25, 2009

It’s pretty obvious that images and photos are important for your blog.  As a matter of fact, us bloggers go to pretty extreeme lengths to get great photos and illustrations.  Many of us are paying thousands of dollars a month in photo rights fees.
So why are you neglecting your photos?
Many bloggers are not as dilegant [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 Released

July 15, 2008

Some great new featured in the new Wordpress 2.6.
My favorites include the article edit logs.  You can now see what a post used to look like before you edited it.  Wordpress creates a log of each change.  You can then see the changes side by side, then restore an older version if you wish.
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Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 Released

June 24, 2008

Geeks across the land rejoice.
Why just the geeks?  Well this release is expected to not have many visible changes.  A lot of those were made with the 2.5 release, so it’s time to catch our breath.
Instead, a lot of changes “under the hood” are being made to improve the usability and experience.  Here’s the list.
Caching [...]

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Image Upload PageURL and Image

May 13, 2008

Many people are sill experiencing issues with the image upload function in Wordpress 2.5.1.
The issue centers around placing images into posts with links to the image itself or to a page with the image on it.
After uploading in an image, you are given the option to place it with None, File URL, or Post URL.  [...]

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Wordpress 2.5.1 Released

April 26, 2008

Wordpress 2.5.1 is now available for immediate download and install.
Wordpress and iCast Limited highly recommends upgrading your install immediately due to the discovery of a serious security hole associated with open registration.  The vulnerability will be published soon, so it is in your best interest to upgrade as soon as possible.
The full upgrade also has [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 Image Upload Problem

March 31, 2008

The newly released Wordpress 2.5 does have one small bug in it related to image uploads. The new version takes advantage of some Java and Flash to run the image uploader that doesn’t place nice with Internet Explorer 7.
It seems to work fine with Firefox and on Macs, but PC’s running IE 7 are [...]

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