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The Best Wordpress Video Plugin

17. March 2010

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We all know that Wordpress is the best CMS and blogging platform on the market today.  No argument there.  However, it can sometimes be tricky to embed videos into your posts with the stock version of Wordpress. So what’s the best video plugin to handle all of your video embed needs?  Viper’s Video Quicktags is the [...]

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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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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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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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Chartbeat.com Realtime Stats

20. July 2009

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You may have heard about the cool, new (relatively) service by Betaworks called Chartbeat.com.  It is a real-time web analytics service on steroids. Chartbeat’s dashboard if fully animated, and updates before your very eyes in real time.  It is all part of the growing trend of tracking the “now-web.”  You simply load your realtime dashboard and [...]

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Solve Your Technical or Content Needs

22. May 2009

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Have you ever run into a situation on your site where you need a quick technical fix but don’t know how to do it?  Do you have a great idea for a new site design or web app? It can be a pretty daunting task to get that kind of thing done.  Some people are lucky [...]

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Why Wordpress is the Best Blogging Platform

22. May 2009

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When you first start blogging choosing the best platform for your blog is critcal. This and your marketing efforts are the keys to your blogging success. Many people get online to start blogs, but don’t know what platform to use. This is why you need to know why WordPress is the best blogging platform. Here are the [...]

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