Archive for February, 2009

Managing Posts with WordPress Plugin
Tectonic, South Africa
The purpose of the Post Types plugin is to introduce you to different aspects of WordPress backend development.We learned how to modify the Manage Posts panel to display the information we want. We also covered user capabilities, and how using them,

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Smashingmagazine.com: New ‘Magazeen’ WordPress Theme
Journalism.co.uk, UK
Aimed at current and would-be bloggers, professional or part-time, this course will teach you how to drive traffic to your blog by: joining or initiating online conversations in your subject area; creating a distinctive voice for your blog;

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Apple launches Safari 4 beta, but my browser portfolio is crowded
ZDNet
Chrome works best with the version of WordPress I use. And Firefox is my multipurpose browser. Frankly, Safari may have to cure cancer to get into the mix. The Nitro JavaScript engine executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and three times

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WordPress SEO Tips – 5 Ways To Optimize Your WordPress Blog
Best Syndication, CA
WordPress is an excellent platform to use if you want to run your own blog because it's structure and design enables it to get very good results in the search engines. However it can still be improved further, so here's 5 simple WordPress SEO tips:

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Slowdown and blogging
Livemint, India
But Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, the most widely used open platform for blogging, says more bloggers don’t mean more revenues. ”In advertising we are seeing an endemic weakness. Even when traffic might be up 30 percent, ad revenues are flat.

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Slowdown & blogging
Livemint, India
But Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, the most widely used open platform for blogging, says more bloggers don’t mean more revenues. ”In advertising we are seeing an endemic weakness. Even when traffic might be up 30 percent, ad revenues are flat.

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Ars Technica: Facebook invades your blog, rest of Web with new
NewsFactor Network, CA
A snippet of code can be added to static pages, or CMSes like Movable Type and WordPress via plug-ins, to embed the Comment Box. Whether visitors have a Facebook account or not, the box allows them to comment, and admin controls are provided to weed
New Features: Add CBB to Facebook, Put a Photo on Your Comment and Celebrity Baby Blog
Facebook Launches Comments Box, Tests Ads In AppsMediapost.com
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Mobile. WordPress. Twitter. Google News
Tribble Ad Agency (satire), PA
I’m posting this from my cell phone to wordpress .. in which it auto tweets … and auto shows up in google news. the moral of the story? if this works my Blackjack just became my main computer.. 10 years ago this was almost impossible.. now its about to

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Calaveras River gets some care
Stockton Record, CA
Meanwhile, University of the Pacific students boated to an island and chopped up the bamboo-like Arundo weed as part of ongoing attempts to eradicate the invasive plant. To learn more about the Calaveras group, visit http://riverofskulls.wordpress.com.

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Mashable
Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and
Mashable, CA
Crafty WordPress bloggers, however, can take back their blog and keep it fresh with their activity from Twitter or FriendFeed with the new Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter plugin. The plugin uses a “magical” formula to pull recent content from Twitter

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