Installing Custom Taxonomies in WordPress Themes

This guide is meant for individuals who want to learn what custom taxonomies are in WordPress, how to install them and how to display them in WordPress themes. You do not need to be familiar with the WordPress core coding or know the nitty-gritties of PHP programming to understand this guide.
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WordPress 3.0 Released: Merge with MU, Custom Post Types, Custom Menus and More

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What some once considered to be a leading open-source CMS and blogging platform that exchanged flexibility for a more difficult learning curve, has transformed over the years into the very essence of user-friendly web publishing. After two beta releases and a release candidate (called RC1), the WordPress development team released WordPress 3.0 (dubbed “Thelonious” after [...]

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Writing Image Paths in WordPress Themes the Right Way

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WordPress themes with hard-coded image paths are nightmares in the making. If the location of the theme files are moved or if any of the folder names are changed, the theme will no longer work. That is why the WordPress development team took the time to create a very useful function that finds the location [...]

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Installing the Facebook Like Button on a WordPress Blog

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If you are a WordPress Blogger, you probably have an immediate need to install the new Facebook Like button on your blog. With the Facebook Like Button, readers can like a web page and a link to the page will appear on their Facebook profile. A WordPress Plugin That Will Solve All Your Liking Needs [...]

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WordPress Threaded Comments – How to Install Them on Your Theme [A Guide for Dummies]

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So you’ve got an archaic WordPress theme and you would like to install threaded comments on it? You’ve come to the right place. Here’s what you will need to complete this guide: Absolutely no knowledge of HTML/CSS or PHP An IQ over 55 (borderline retarded) A computer and an old WordPress theme that needs comments [...]

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MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate for WordPress Review

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If you have any hopes of earning money from affiliate products, MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate is one high-priced plugin that you must have. The program automatically replaces words and phrases on your blog with affiliate links, allowing you to earn a commission every time someone purchases a product through those links.  For example, I set the [...]

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Gravatar Profiles Go Public, Privacy Concerns Arise

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The Blogosphere just became much more of a personal place with the announcement of public profiles for everyone on the Gravatar Blog. With the change, many of the avatars (small images that represent the authors) on blogs and websites will link to a public profile, complete with a biography, contact details and personal links. The [...]

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Submitting a Theme to the WordPress Free Theme Directory [Tips and How-to]

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The advantages of having one of your themes featured in the WordPress free theme directory are endless. Not only do you get valuable backlinks from WordPress.org, but you also receive: Backlinks from an enormous amount of domains that use your theme. Be sure to include a link to your website in the footer that says [...]

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What’s So Funny About Writing a Humor Blog?

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I’m Tim Jones. I write a weekly humor blog – well, at least that’s what I like to think I am doing each week. Some critics think I am wasting valuable bits and bytes of Internet bandwidth that could be put to much better use. Some people (and by some people, I mean my wife) [...]

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Blogtap Contest #1: Win Ad Space, Content w/ Resell Rights, High PR Backlinks Galore

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The first official Blogtap contest will begin on June 1st, and end on June 11th. A total of 25 individuals will be awarded prizes. Warning: You’re eyes may pop out of your head when reading the descriptions for the prizes. 1st Place Grand Prizes 10GB of resellable content with master resell rights from The Webmaster’s [...]

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The Many Reasons Why You Should Allow DoFollow Commenting on Your Blog (I’ll be Frank)

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Blogtap has officially gone dofollow commenting today. That means that anyone can steal Blogtap’s precious PR juice simply by commenting with a website link. Yup, the PR vampires will be here any minute now. They will bombard my comment queue with their under-thought and overly appreciative (e.g. “great post man!”), witless comments. I say bring it on. I say open the floodgate. And [...]

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InfoLinks In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger

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Article first published as New In-text Advertising Network Comes to Google Blogger on Technorati. With in-text advertisements, bloggers can hyperlink keywords as advertisements and earn PPC (pay per click) dollars every time a hyperlink is clicked. Services like InfoLinks, Kontera and Vibrant provide the ad network and tools to install the advertisements on a blog. InfoLinks recently released a new [...]

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