This WordPress optimization guide is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. If you ever experienced slow WP admin panel, “MySQL server has gone away” message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase in traffic (for example Digg [...]
Keith, Andrew, Jacob and I discussed the news of the week. In fact, I tried to break the world record by opening up as many cans of worms as possible within a 60 minute period. You’ll have to listen to the show to hear if I was successful.
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Once you have your blog running and you are in a position to sell advertising space on your blog is the best way to monetize your blog. To sell Ads in an automated way is the best way, rather than receiving emails and then negotiating. Deciding your Advertisement slots Before starting [...]
Volunteering with No Fees .. No Catches There’s a little revolution going on in the voluntourism world. Instead of paying admin fees and office costs and fat-cat charity commissions, you can actually go do some travel, help out a little, learn a lot and come back smiling without spending [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve witnessed many discussions throughout the WordPress community pertaining to the version number of WordPress. Many think that because of the reworked user interface and the large number of features that this version (2.7) will contain, this should allow the software to be bumped up to version 3.0
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The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from [...]
New Plugins
WP-Honeypot
Add Project HoneyPot traps to your blog to help catch these spammers and comment spammers.
Eventr
Use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event – the plugin will let people sign up for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done,
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Clean Press
Clean Press is a 2 column WordPress theme that’s designed to focus on the content, rather than the design, and it’s the theme that powers this site.
iQ2
iQ2 is a fixed width, widget ready, photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin.
Night Light
Fixed width, two column, widget ready theme with a left sidebar
Carrington
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SBS Sniper SEO Demo Site Live Today sees the launch of our new SBS Sniper demo site. We announced it a couple of weeks back here: sbs sniper – its a ready built seo website design package and we really needed something to show interested parties so spec ops have knocked [...]
Instapundit which is one of the most highly trafficked political blogs on the net recently confirmed that they have switched from Movable Type to WordPress. The site doesn’t appear to be hosted on the WordPress.com VIP network but instead, is using a self hosted install of WordPress 2.6.3. Hat Tip to Doug Stewart.
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