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Must-Have Plugins for Your New Wordpress Blog
Now you can download a free .zip file containing all the plugins listed! See here for more details and instructions. Setting up a Wordpress blog? I’ve had plenty of people ask me which plugins I...
View ArticleDenying Access to Comment Spammers (and others) Using htaccess and 403 Pages
One of the downsides of having an interactive website of any kind is dealing with spammers. Whether you have forums, blogs, wikis, or blog-hosting sites, you’ll run across spammers of one kind or...
View ArticleUsing Wordpress PHP Conditional Tags to Create Variable Design
Looking for a way to create sidebars that look one way on the main blog page, another way on the individual posts, and perhaps a third way on the individual pages? Here’s how to use Wordpress’s...
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New Related Posts Plugin Rocks My Socks
A while back, I posted a list of the best plugins for a Wordpress site. I even created a plugin starter pack. Well, now it’s time to amend both to make way for a plugin I’ve recently discovered....
View Article13 Admin Themes +3 : Improve Your User-Side Wordpress Experience
If you’re like me, you’re not very keen on the default Wordpress admin look. Perhaps I’m just jaded from logging into too many other peoples’ blogs to do design work, I like to see something different...
View ArticleEasy Wordpress .htaccess 301 Redirect
Recently, I moved a Wordpress blog from one domain to another. Most of the time, I work with blogging platform transfers or possibly moving the domain from one host to another. In this case, I needed...
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How to do a Thorough Backup of Your Wordpress Blog
CathLawson, one of my favorite bloggers, recently experienced every blogger’s worst nightmare. Her host shut down her account and turned off her site. The site took 3 days to come back up. I think this...
View ArticleWhen Your Wordpress Blog Goes Blank – Possible Fix
One of the many services I offer is migrating Wordpress blogs from one host to another. If you’re attempting to migrate your own blog, here’s one important tip: deactivate your caching plugin before...
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How to Handle Comment Spam Akismet Doesn’t Catch
Recently, a number spam bots have been managing to get past Akismet to leave nonsensical comments with no actual link. Instead the link has read http://link with no .com. It seems likely that these...
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