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How to Schedule Posts in WordPress

by Martin on 27 May, 2010

in Wordpress

I took myself off on holiday recently and decided use WordPress’ scheduled publishing feature to keep the content flowing on this site while I was lying on the beach. I simply wrote some articles before I left and scheduled them to be published every other day while I was away. It’s such a useful feature [...]

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How to Add Post Images to WordPress

by Martin on 22 April, 2010

in Wordpress

Post images – those thumbnail-sized images that I use at the start of each article – can help strengthen the impact of your message, as well as providing some visual appeal. But how to add them? I saw a question recently where someone asked the forum what plugins were available to help manage post images. [...]

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I hadn’t paid much attention to the previews of the new features to be introduced with WordPress 2.9. But, having upgraded yesterday, I have to say that I’m left with mixed feelings. I understand that there’s quite a lot that was designed to help plugin and theme developers, but for humble users (you and me) [...]

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The 1-click installation service offered by most hosting providers for various applications is wonderful. In particular, it’s opened up self-hosted WordPress blogging to a whole tribe of people who might have baulked at the manual installation. But there are some things to keep in mind. And please don’t take these as criticisms – they’re not, [...]

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How to Avoid Ping Spamming

by Martin on 17 November, 2009

in Wordpress

I saw one of those VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS NOW posts in a forum the other day. It was all about how WordPress could get us banned from the search engines. I normally don’t go anywhere near posts with titles like that, but considering the mutual love affair between Google and WordPress I was intrigued. [...]

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How To Make a WordPress Post Sticky

by Martin on 3 November, 2009

in Wordpress

I see a lot of questions asking how to make a WordPress post sticky. A sticky post is one that stays on the front page of your blog so that, same as sticky posts in forums, it will always be displaid first. What’s the point of that? It depends on the content of your blog, [...]

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What is WordPress?

by Martin on 29 October, 2009

in Web Basics

In this post I referred to a question I saw in one of the forums: what is WordPress? Given that I write this blog for people who are new, or relatively new, to working on-line, and it contains over 40 articles on WordPress, I have been remiss in not writing one that describes exactly what [...]

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How to Copy and Paste From Word to WordPress

by Martin on 28 September, 2009

in Wordpress

Another question I see quite often is people asking how to copy a post developed in Word into WordPress. I create all my posts initially in either Word or Open Office, because with both of those packages I get spelling and grammar checking and the ability to test different layouts. Once you’re satisfied with the [...]

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Somebody on LinkedIn today asked what the best platform would be for a corporate site with seamless blog functionality. No prizes for guessing what my answer was. Right out of the box, WordPress offers the perfect solution for a company website that has standard product and service pages, plus the ability to release product news [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Photo Gallery

by Martin on 16 July, 2009

in Wordpress

I was helping a friend to sort out some images on his WordPress site recently and looked for a video on how to set up a photo gallery.The only video I could find was about 30 seconds long and left several steps out – which didn’t help me much.So after several viewings I decided to [...]

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Widgets in WordPress 2.8 – a Video

by Martin on 19 June, 2009

in Wordpress

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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How to Install Widgets in WordPress 2.8

by Martin on 15 June, 2009

in Wordpress

Important note: We’re currently on WordPress 3.0 and the process for managing widgets is the same as described 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. Original article starts here: For more details on Widgets – [...]

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How to Install Widgets

by Martin on 31 May, 2009

in Wordpress

Important Update: When WordPress 2.8 was introduced it included some major changes to the way widgets are managed. I’ve therefore published a separate article that describes how to manage widgets in WordPress 2.8 and later, including WordPress 2.9 and 3.0. So if you’re using WordPress 2.8 or later you should click here to see how [...]

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I saw a question in one of the forums this week that asked whether a blog could be used to set up landing pages containing product reviews for a wide range of products. The review pages (blog) would be promoted through Pay Per Click or article marketing campaigns, and direct visitors on to the actual [...]

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Important Update – 30th March, 2010: It seems, as of the last couple of days, that Blogger has changed its attitude towards using Blogger blogs to funnel traffic towards affiliate sites.  See this thread in the Warrior Forum, and note the 11th and 13th comments. As a result, I strongly urge you to check the [...]

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What is So Great About WordPress?

by Martin on 31 July, 2008

in Wordpress

I’ve seen a lot of questions about WordPress this week in the forums I visit. So here’s my take: For the vast majority of people working online WordPress is the best platform I know of for publishing online. There are platforms that are more powerful in certain ways – like Drupal and Joomla – but [...]

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