For many WordPress users who are self-hosted, changing the styles on a theme can lead to a great deal of frustration. After all, not everyone is proficient in CSS. And some bloggers, who have a basic grasp of CSS, don’t necessarily know where to find the particular code snippets they are looking for to alter styles. Even expert coders — without assistance from a program — can have a great deal of difficulty finding the styles for elements in the theme that they want to change. That’s just 3 reasons why you should install the fabulous Firebug add-on for Firefox.
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Never take the decision of naming your blog lightly. You might some day regret it — especially if you are looking to reach a large audience or to earn money from your blog. The concept you need to understand the most when naming a blog is the marketing concept of branding. Your brand is your [...]
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Be one of the first to subscribe to this blog and get a free permanent dofollow link to your blog on the star subscribers list. The links will be ordered starting from the first subscribers to last so get your spot now to secure valuable PR juice and massive traffic from this blog in the [...]
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Meta tags like the description and keywords tags are what search engines use to identify the content of a page on your site. The description tag is the most important meta tag because it is displayed to search engine users on result pages. For example, when I search the term ‘blog’ in Google, the first [...]
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So, you just made a blog and now you are looking for people to read it. Problem is — you’re fat, uneducated, poor and friendless. Who’s gonna’ read your blog? Well, if you know how to use Digg correctly, one of your wee little blog posts just might end up on 10,000 computer screens all [...]
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So, you’ve just installed WordPress and you are wondering what that little inactive plugin named Akismet is doing in your installed plugins list. You’ve probably already guessed that the WordPress developers would not include a plugin, with the version of WordPress you installed, unless it added some kick-ass functionality to your blog. You’ve guessed right. [...]
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Oh the joy of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors. They make all of the difficult things involved in editing an HTML/PHP page easy but they make all of the easy things impossible. One such easy-thing-turned-impossible is the ability to insert <br> tags to create line breaks. It seems the WordPress developers [...]
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->> Download Version 1.2.0.0 This plugin was designed by a college buddy named David Sherret who lives over on DavidSherret.com. He may or may not be open to suggestions for changing the plugin. The Custom Post Background plugin for WordPress adds a great deal of visual customization ability to your blog posts and page appearances. It [...]
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If you are like me, you are constantly changing the layout and design of your blog. Viewing the same design elements can get tiring after a while and sometimes, a change is necessary. One of the simplest design alterations you can make to your blog involves changing the width of your blog post area. Here [...]
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The purpose of tags is to easily allow readers to read blog posts of a similar nature or on the same topic. The use of tags in a blog is not meant to increase search engine ranking or provide a navigation menu (although they can serve these purposes) but to simply allow the blogger to [...]
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Problem: The admin control panel nor any pages on your blog cannot be accessed. All that appears is a blank white page. The problem is common for WordPress bloggers who have just recently made edits to essential php files or have too many plugins running in the background, causing PHP to malfunction. Solutions: Check your [...]
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In the wide world of Internet advertising, there exists a plethora of options and techniques to monetize your blog through advertising. When the web first began, services like Google AdSense, ClickBank and Chitika did not exist. The only way to advertise would be to place custom image banners that linked to a particular product or [...]
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