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Are Your Plugins Up To Date?

Updating your plugins I got myself in a right pickle over this recently with the case study blog. I was setting the structure of the blog up and had already installed Wordpress which was version 2.3 (recently released) at the time. And I started to add plugins to it. I had moved this blog from Blogspot [...]

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Have You Had Trouble with Adsense Plugins?

I don’t know about you but I have been having a terrible time trying to find an Adsense plugin to work on my blog. Or even to get Adsense to appear at all even if I put it in by hand. I wondered if something had happened to my Adsense account but everything seemed fine. And [...]

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The Best Way to Upgrade Wordpress

Have you upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet? A couple of weeks ago I found a message in my Wordpress admin panel saying my Wordpress installation was out of date. And I should upgrade to version 2.3 as soon as possible, due to it having a lot of bug fixs in it. Now that always sends a chill [...]

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What are my two most important plugins?

My main aim for The Photographer Blog is cultivating and fostering a community where photographers can talk about their love. And I aim to do that by attracting readers and building the RSS subscribers to the blog. Therefore the two most important plugins to to let me do this are Google Analytics and Feedburner Feedsmith. Google [...]

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10 Essential Wordpress Plugins

This is a list of the plugins (in no particular order) I use on my blogs and what I think are essential plugins for any Wordpress blog. All the plugins come with installation and configuration instructions once downloaded and the file unzipped: 1. SEO Title Tag This plugin allows you to edit the post title that appears [...]

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How To Change A Wordpress Theme

Do you like my new theme for Build a Blog, it is very different to my last one, but I really like it and think it suits the blog very well. What do you think? Why Did I Want To Change? The main reason I wanted to change my theme was presentation. The above the fold area, [...]

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How To Install Wordpress Onto An Addon Domain

This article is part of a case study following how I set up and run a new blog, about photography called the photographer blog, if you would like to find out more then please visit the case study category. So I have registered my domain name for the case study blog – thephotographerblog.com and now it [...]

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To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?

This is part of a series of posts about Wordpress, you may like to take a look at the others, here they are: Blogging Platforms – Which one to choose! Who else has trouble choosing a host? How to Install Wordpress Themes and Plugins? What are the best features of Wordpress? You may have heard that Wordpress has released an [...]

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What Are The Best Features Of Wordpress?

My Top 3 Features of Wordpress? I have been using Wordpress (.org) since July this year and I thought I would share my 3 favourite features of Wordpress with you. I have found Wordpress very easy to use, although I have had some experience of using a blogging platform before over at Blogger, and was therefore [...]

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How to Install Wordpress Themes and Plugins

Choosing a Theme and Installing One of the things that appealed to me about Wordpress is it’s customising abilities, with the Wordpress installation you get a default theme, but there are 1,000’s of free themes for Wordpress that you can download and customise to make your own. Or if you have the money, you could have [...]

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