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Old blog posts? The silent blog killer.
In: Web Authoring
28 Oct 2009We talk about a lot of blog topics around here. How to write great posts, how to write compelling titles and how to deal with Search Engine Optimization issues. There is one thing that is often overlooked, old blog posts. Search engines never forget. If your blog post already has a good bit of traction [...]
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- Tags: Blogging, Old Posts, Wordpress
Getting multiple persona-ality
In: Web Authoring
24 Jun 2009Ok, maybe that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but work with me here. In the software development world, a lot of times we talk about who our customers are. Not what kind of pancakes they like, or what they think about rainbows, but what set of characteristics makes them a unique user type. [...]
Alex King’s Twitter Tools Plugin is a must if you are a WordPress Blogger and Twitter user. It’s most compelling feature is that it can automatically post a Tweet when you post a new blog post. This also works for time delayed posts, it Tweets when the post is published. One of the things I [...]
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- Tags: PHP, Twitter, Wordpress
Using Windows Live Mesh to Share Windows Live Writer Drafts Between Computers…
In: Web Authoring
23 Apr 2009Sometimes we find ourselves using several computers regularly. Many times bloggers will find inspiration for a great article, but run out of time before it can be finished. If you use Windows Live Writer to compose blog posts, and you should, you might have run into this little problem. Luckily Windows Live Mesh comes to [...]
Realism for bloggers in 2009: Know the facts before you consider a blogging career…
In: Web Authoring
24 Feb 2009You have read all of the articles by bloggers who claim to be making tons of money. You have read all about the tips and tricks that will grow your blog from nothing to rock star in months. You have probably even seen a hundred companies online that promise to get you a massive readership [...]
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- Tags: Blog, Blogger
WordPress Plug-in Spotlight: Upload files from the WordPress Dashboard with WP Easy Uploader
In: Web Authoring
23 Feb 2009One of the problems with using a news style theme is that you constantly have to upload files for lead stories, etc. If you aren’t always on a machine with a full fledged blog client or possibly suffer from firewall restrictions like I do, you need to be able to upload your images through the [...]
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- Tags: Plugins, Wordpress
WordPress 2.7 beta1 First Impressions
In: Online|Web Authoring
1 Nov 2008I decided to take the plunge and give the beta a try on my main blog so here you have it. Philoking.com is running the WordPress 2.7 beta1 in production. From the viewer perspective it should be transparent. For, it’s already a dream. The back end UI has had a total facelift and some of [...]
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- Tags: Wordpress
WordPress for iPhone?
22 Jul 2008Do you believe it? Posting to my blog from my iPod Touch! If you speak iblogging, hit the app store now. Submit this post to
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- Tags: Wordpress
Testing the WordPress 2.6 Image Caption Feature
In: Online|Web Authoring
16 Jul 2008This is me playing with my new studio setup So I wanted to do this post to give a friend a chance to see how WordPress handles this captioning problem, here it is, so disregard as being actual content This text is pointless, but I want enough to make sure it wraps and we can [...]
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- Tags: Wordpress
WordPress Theme Design: Vista Theme
In: Online|Web Authoring
13 Jun 2008I decided today to make a Vista theme for my blog. I started with a screen shot of Outlook, and opened it in Adobe Photoshop and started simplifying it. Once I had the basics of what I wanted, I had a single flat jpg that looked something like this… I brought it into back into [...]
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- Tags: Vista, Wordpress
Windows Live Writer Technical Preview Available for Download Now!
In: Random|Web Authoring
2 Jun 2008I have been playing with this for quite a while now and nearly begging Joe Cheng and the Live Writer Team to let me blog about it. I have raved about Windows Live Writer before but now you really have something special for your blog writing needs. Special enough that I even use it (via [...]
Imagine being able to upload a photo to flickr at the same time you use it in your blog. It uploads the thumb to WordPress and the actual photo to your flickr account….fancy…. leave a comment for details, it’ exists… Submit this post to
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- Tags: Live Writer, Wordpress
Upgrading, please be patient
In: Random|Web Authoring
31 Mar 2008upgrading my site to WordPress 2.5, please be patient with the spartan appearance. Update Update… MS won’t let me FTP from inside the network so I will be on this less than exciting template and plugin-less environment till I get home today. Submit this post to
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- Tags: Wordpress
It used to be that if you wanted to run WordPress, you wanted a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Server. You could get it working on Internet Information Server but it wasn’t the best and there were definitely issues to be dealt with. Trouble yourself no more! Zend Technologies, and the “Zend Platform” have [...]
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- Tags: Wordpress
Moderate WordPress Comments Like A Pro….
In: Online|Web Authoring
29 Jan 2008When your blog begins to gain popularity, responding to comments can be a bear. Before we get into this discussion however, I want to provide a few tips for those road weary spam fighting comment responders.. Let the cream rise to the topSpam comments are a nightmare. There are a few ways to fight them, [...]
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