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Five WordPress Plugins you SHOULD be using and probably aren’t!

It’s been a while since I shared a couple of WordPress Plugins with you. In fact, my Last Post on the subject is almost a year old at this point (ok, its 11 months today). On this list of five, only one from the original post makes a reappearance. Yes, I’m still using the other [...]

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10 Must Use WordPress Plugins…

I was reading around the web today looking for ways to make the blog better and I stumbled on a post over at sitepoint about 10 must have WordPress Plugins. Surprisingly, I’m already running most of the ones listed, but I thought it was time for me to make another list of my favorite plugins [...]

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5 Good Twitter Tools

Yar, I’ve been using Twitter for a while now and I’ve finally developed a list of five of my current favorite tools for twitter. I thought I’d share them with you. Twhirl is perhaps my favorite desktop app for twitter. Its cool because its done in AdobeAIR and can run on Mac, Linux and Windows [...]

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My Favorite Plugins

One of my favorite things to do is to try out new plugins and I have to say, the new plugin interface in WP 2.7 is AWESOME. Absolutely Awesome. I can search and install without leaving my admin area. Something that other suites have been able to do for a while and its something that [...]

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WordPress 2.7 and some problems…

So apparently WordPress 2.7 is out today (or sometime last night) and of course, they are recommending that you upgrade immediately. Your sites won’t die if you don’t, but don’t expect it to go smoothly. Among some of the changes to wordpress are a new layout for the admin areas. I had just gotten used [...]

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Commenting on Air

It doesn’t get much better then this. Adobe Air has allowed some developers to do some pretty cool things with code lately and I have to think, that from a blogger’s standpoint, Moderator by Daniel Dura is the best thing since, well, wordpress. Moderator is a pretty cool wordpress plugin that adds the ability to [...]

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Twitter Fountains??

So a friend is attending some conference somewhere and in one of the sessions he was in he learned of twitter.zappos.com. Apparently, the shoe GOD zappos has instituted a twitter feed to their site that allows visitors to see the good and bad of the twittersphere when it comes to zappos. Simply mention the word [...]

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Pimp My Blog

One of the plugins in use here is the Yahoo Shortcuts plugin which aim to help make your blog supafly! Its an easy way of adding photos, links, maps and other rich media to Your blogposts with little effort. The cool thing, is that they’re currently mailing out FREE t-shirts to those people who are [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 Ways to Blogging Success

Thirteen ways to blogging successIn no particular order… Find a Niche. Pick a subject (or a couple of subjects) and blog about those specifically. Don’t jump from Britney, to Politics, to Software reviews to auto racing on the same blog. Your posts would be everywhere and no one would be able to follow. If you [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 WordPress Plugins Worth Using

Thirteen WordPress Plugins worth UsingIn no particular order… Akismet – Akismet comes default with wordpress installs these days. Its one of two plugins that do. Akismet is perhaps the single best tool against fighting blogspam that we have available today. Why my install of akismet has already blocked over 6,000 spam posts and blocks at [...]

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