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For a long time the WordPress community has been providing themes and plugins to WordPress users for free. During recent years this has started to change, and one of the most significant developments has been the rise in popularity of premium themes.
Premium WordPress themes are often available with a single or a multi user (developer) [...]
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WordPress 2.8.5 has been released today and it is aimed at making WordPress installs much more secure than they have previously been. During the past few months a lot of WordPress powered sites have been the target of hackers, with quite a large degree of success. This update is meant to put a stop to [...]
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Broken Link Checker by Janis Elsts is one of the most useful WordPress plugins any blogger could use.
If your blog is just a few weeks old and you have been posting on a regular basis, the chances are there are already one or two broken links within your pages. If your blog is a few [...]
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During the past few days there has been quite a few hacker attacks on WordPress powered blogs.
One of my blogs was targeted and successfully hacked.
Prior to the hack occurring I noticed a few new accounts had been created by people with strange names using gmail addresses. This made me a little suspicious as [...]
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WordPress has come a long way in the past couple of years. The amount of usage has increased considerably and it is now the blogging platform of choice for many big online names.
As the WordPress monster grows, so does the community surrounding it. Plug in developers and theme designers are all around, but what if [...]
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Shortcodes have been part of the WordPress API (Application Programming Interface) since version 2.5 (currently 2.7) and can make a bloggers life much easier!
In order to know how to use WordPress shortcodes you do need to have some understanding of PHP coding, but having an understanding of PHP will enable to you get more from [...]
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It seems like everyone loves a list. Everywhere you go there are top tens for this and top twenties for that.
We were going to compile our own list of great WordPress plugins, but we have decided to compile a list of great WordPress plugin lists.
Here are 10 popular WordPress plugin lists:
21 of the Best WordPress [...]
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It has been a long time coming and many people have been waiting with baited breath, but, at last, WordPress 2.7 (Coltrane) is here and (from first impressions) it is an absolute joy!
This post is going to be written as I test things out and move around the admin area.
Bring on the new!
The first thing [...]
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From Yoast : I’ve seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There’s a couple of things they’ll look at, usually in the order: layout / look and feel, usability and optionally, room for advertising. If the theme meets their needs in all two or three of these points, they download it and start installing it. If that’s what you do too, this theme checklist is for you! A theme has quite a few things it has to take care of, and a lot of themes out there don’t take care of all of these. This is a checklist that should help you prevent getting into trouble when you start using a new theme. If you’re thinking of installing a theme, open up the directory that your supposed to upload, and check the following: See the List
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Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin that searches the Flickr database for photos published under a Creative Commons License, the photos can then be added to any Wordpress blog post.
Photo Dropper will search Flickr for tags that comply with your search term and show thumbnails of the images it finds in the Wordpress dashboard. The [...]
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There has been another Wordpress update; we are now at 2.6.2
The official Wordpress blog is encouraging all blogs that allow open registration to upgrade immediatley to fix the newly emerged security issue. This is what the official Wordpress site has to say about the latest release:
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL [...]
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An update to the 2.6 version of Wordpress has recently been released. Most of the changes are aimed at international users who may be blogging in a language other than English (particularly Farsi and Hebrew). There doesn’t appear to be any major fixes for people blogging in English and the Wordpress blog advises users that [...]
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