Besides being a faceless entity whose words you only read based on snazzy headlines, I’m also a part-time human being! With that being said, I actually do look through all the sorts of comments you leave me, emails you send, and places you share my work (I believe that my fellow authors can say the same). So with that being said, I just wanted to tell you the kinds of feedback that I like after folks read whatever blog post that I’ve written.

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AJAX is a remarkable web technology that moved us beyond the simple “click link, go to another page” structure of The Internet 1.0. It enables websites to dynamically fetch and display content without the user moving away from the current page. Making use of AJAX is quite easy to do from within the WordPress environment, and today we show you how.

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A quick scan of the Best of WordPress Plugins page will reveal some of the many unique and niche ways you can make your blog work harder. What if you already have a database of say, customer information, but you want to be able to query that data and display it within a WordPress template? Today I’ll be showing you just how to do that, safely within the WordPress engine.

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Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.

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Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog – and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.

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As an occasional personal blogger, I have seen a lot of other folks in the blogosphere who just want to write personal publications that are not exactly meant for making money. I really like that, actually. We need more people who just want to share their stories in this world. However, some of you may be wanting to start your own blog, and I thought I’d drop a few of my personal tips.

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Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click “Add New” in Wordpress.

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You may have noticed on January 18th that plenty of big websites participated in an Internet blackout as a protest of the US government’s proposed SOPA legislation. Despite the SOPA plans being dropped for now, there are still numerous similar acts of legislation being proposed. If you’re planning on supporting future protests, you might like to know what Google recommends you do.

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If you haven’t logged into your dashboard lately, you probably should. Wordpress 3.3 was released about a few weeks ago, and as a major release it brings some fairly significant changes which I’ll outline today. The underlying theme is accessibility for new users.

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I recently had the opportunity to become part of a podcast which I’m sure you’ll hear about soon enough – and it’s all fairly new ground for me. As the only one with enough bandwidth to host, and clearly the most experienced of the group in Wordpress ninja-ship, I also took it upon myself to setup the necessary protocols that make an actual podcast, as opposed to being just audio files posted on a blog.

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