June 2009

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Here’s a question I saw today: can someone explain how to back up my WordPress blog? Backing up your blog is an essential housekeeping task that you should do at least once a week. If you’re a hyper blogger (2, 3 or more posts a day) then you’d probably want to back up your database [...]

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WordPress has always frustrated the life out of me when I try to use the HTML view to write posts. I like writing in HTML.  It’s a precise language and you’re able to control exactly how you want your page to look, especially when you combine it with CSS. But WordPress has always had these [...]

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Here are two videos on adding and managing plugins in WordPress 2.8 or later. Firstly – adding plugins:

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The post I wrote a few days ago on widgets in wordpress 2.8 received a lot of views, so I thought it may be helpful to make a video. So here it is – a video on managing widgets in WordPress 2.8.

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Do I need to learn HTML and SEO?  This was a question I saw in a forum today. For people new to working on-line learning these new skills with strange acronyms can be daunting. In another post I talked about how I tried to start my Internet business without a website because I didn’t want [...]

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Important note: We’re currently on WordPress 3.X and the process for managing widgets is the same as described both in this article and in the video on widgets in WordPress 2.8. If the process changes in a future version of WordPress I’ll publish an updated article. Note that widgets are different from plugins. Widgets are [...]

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