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Customizing Wordpress: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

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

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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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

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

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

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

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. The image [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 Released

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

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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