Latest version of Editing In WordPress manual (V6)

July 21, 2009

Hi , I’ve made a small change to the “Basic Editing in WordPress” manual, adding in a Table Of Contents.

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To Publish or Not To Publish – pinging your posts

July 9, 2009

Hi everyone, To all of you who have the Ping Optimizer installed as part of the Top 10 Plugins package, it’s important to realise the impact of publishing posts & how they get “pinged” to syndication and feed sites. The point of this plugin is to reduce “ping spam” – i.e. pinging various sites too [...]

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Database Backups: what to do

July 3, 2009

You will receive an email from your WordPress system each week, which is a backup of the CONTENT ONLY. The title will be something like:

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8 SEO Tips for bloggers

July 3, 2009

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an important means of improving your blog’s ability to be found by search engines, for keywords or phrases that are relevant to your niche or market. Here is a summary of 8 excellent tips to improving the SEO of your blog:

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Dating your posts

June 26, 2009

It’s useful to be able to set the published/publish date of your posts in certain circumstances, and it’s very easy to do.

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Adding YouTube videos to a blog post or page

June 20, 2009

With the huge popularity of YouTube, many people want to take advantage of the store of useful material there to enhance their own websites. This video shows you how to find the embed code for a YouTube video, and what to do to have the video play within your own WordPress site.

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Adding other file types to posts & pages

June 5, 2009

This next video shows you how to add in “other” file types, such as PDFs, Powerpoint presentations etc. Click here to view the video —————————————- This is the useful code

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“Sticky” posts

May 29, 2009

Here’s a question from a client: “I’d like to keep my “welcome” post at the top of the blog page, so I changed its date. Is there a more techie way of doing this so I don’t have to keep editing it?” The short answer is “Yes”. The long answer is

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Using Windows Live Writer

May 11, 2009

Windows Live Writer is a user-friendly interface that allows you to publish blog posts to a large number of blogs, WordPress as well as other blogs. It has an easier Visual editor to use than WordPress itself, which is one of the main advantage. In the videos below, I explain how to get Windows Live

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