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Wordpress

Wordpress popularity contest

by Terry Dunn January 27, 2010

In today’s video, Jack Humphrey from friday traffic report reviews the wordpress popularity contest plugin published by Alex King. If you don’t know Alex King, he publishes a number of excellent wordpress plugins, including twitter tools, which I use. He also provides professional wordpress development and consulting services.
Popularity contest is a free wordpress plugin, which [...]

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Creating a wordpress theme

by Terry Dunn January 16, 2010

Have you ever noticed how many bloggers and even websites have developed their own wordpress themes? They may sell them or give them away as a premium for another product or to persuade you to opt-in to their email list. And, perhaps you’ve thought to yourself, that’s a good idea – I’d like my own [...]

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Search engine friendly wordpress

by Terry Dunn December 7, 2009

Wordpress is brilliant blogging software with thousands of plugins, templates, developers and designers with infinite possibilities for functionality and design. But straight out-of-the box, it’s not particularly search engine friendly. However, with a little tweaking, google loves wordpress. One problem is duplicate content.
Today video is by Michael Gray from thegraywolfweb, who shows you how to [...]

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Wordpress, adsense and money

by Terry Dunn November 13, 2009

Did you know once you have a popular blog with regularly published content you can add google adsense advertising and make money when visitors click on the adverts? Great! Sounds easy. Er, well no, it’s not. Your blog does have to be popular. You need plenty of traffic, which is not quite so easy. How [...]

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Adding wordpress plugins

by Terry Dunn August 10, 2009

The forth in a 5-part series, together we will add new features and functionality to your blog by finding and installing plugins. You should have chosen a host, installed wordpress by following the steps in our featured video, and chosen a theme you like.
Start by exploring the wordpress plugins directory. With 6,153 plugins, and increasing [...]

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Choosing a wordpress theme

by Terry Dunn August 6, 2009

The third in a 5-part series, together we will choose, install and activate a theme for your wordpress blog. You should have chosen and paid for a host, and installed the wordpress blog software by following the steps in the featured video.
Using the dashboard of your blog, from the ‘appearance’ box, choose ‘themes’ (I am [...]

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