With the Custom Post Background, WordPress users can change individual post or page backgrounds in the admin control panel. But what if you want to change the background of the front or mainpage of your WordPress blog? Unfortunately there is not a plugin that will allow you to do that. That is why I have taken the time to write a fairly basic PHP script that will allow you to change only the frontpage of your WordPress blog.
It’s no secret that major companies have embraced blogging as a way to boost PR and keep employees and shareholders in the know on company news and activity. Because of this, vaguely described job postings for journalist-blogger-style-new-media-specialists populate the job boards at places like Mashable, Problogger and JournalismJobs.com. But according to a recent study at [...]
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Blogging is a means of self-expression that extends to nearly every social sphere — moms, entrepreneurs, soldiers, athletes – bloggers can be found in every walk of life, every niche, profession and people group. Everyone has something to learn or share in a blog community. It is that idea that makes blogging such an ideal [...]
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A guest post from the Idea Lady, Cathy Stucker. Get free ideas for small business and sign up for her IdeaLady Insider newsletter at http://IdeaLady.com/. Do you find it hard to come with things to blog about? A few years ago, I had a weekly newspaper column. I had to turn in 500 words every Friday [...]
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Still believe all that hogwash about quality over quantity? According to a study presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference last Wednesday, bloggers who post frequently are much more “attractive” than infrequent posters, regardless of post quality.
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At this year’s Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, COO Dick Costolo announced plans to implement Twitter’s “monetization engine” which will allow twitterers to pay to promote their tweets. This from CNET News: The company insists that “promoted tweets” aren’t ads, but tweets, which in a sense is just Silicon Valley futurist-speak. But in a [...]
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Feast your eyes upon the fabulous Dirty Blue Theme for WordPress 2.5+. Some of the features include: Simple two column layout Ghastly blue background glow Dazzling dark blue color theme with high and moderate contrast colors Cross-browser compatibility Valid HTML Transitional 1.0 This eye-catching theme is only blue in the dirty sense. The Dirty Blue [...]
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I know what you’re thinking. Television advertisements are too expensive and require a lot of industry know-how: only the big boys advertise on television. Not according to a report by Seth Stevenson of Slate who ran a television ad during The Glenn Beck Show on The Fox News Channel. The advertisement cost less than $1,500 [...]
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some comments to the American Society of News Editors that may have raised eyebrows in the blogging community (via Valleywag via Nieman Lab): There is an art to what you do. And if you’re ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors, look at the blog world. That’s all you need to [...]
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**Important update below Dark Reading has reported that hundreds of WordPress blogs have been hacked over the past week do to improperly chmod-ed wp-config.php files. The vulnerabilities were a result of owner hosting provider negligence and not faulty WordPress software. All of the blogs affected were hosted by Network Solutions. The attacker used a type of scanner that extracts [...]
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A guest post by Gagandeep Singh, an Internet Marketing Executive working for Fortepromo Promotional Products, a promotional tool Kits Company based in Minneapolis, USA. If content is the king and visitors are the loyal subjects of your blog, then links are the kingdom’s currency. Simply put: the greater the number of external links to your [...]
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That would depend on what kind of things you put up on your blog. Pictures of you and your drunk buddy spitting off the top of a skyscraper probably won’t roll over to well with potential employers. But blogs that are niche-oriented can really make you out to look like a professional in your field: especially [...]
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