May 25, 2011
You know, something like adding a print button to a webpage sounds pretty simple, right? In this article I'm going to provide four ways that you can integrate a printing button or link into your website - from the very simple HTML and Javascript approach, to the more customizable CSS approach.
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May 24, 2011
The world wide web knows many languages and is coded in several different ones. The one language however, that can be found all over and has been around since the invention of webpages, is the HyperText Markup Language, better known as HTML. In this article I want to show you a few, possibly random, but definitely useful and simple tags for daily use.
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May 20, 2011
Many bloggers will search for the perfect Wordpress widget that will do exactly what they want, but with a little programming experience you may find it's easier to write your custom widget. This week I'd like to show how to do exactly that, and the widget we will be writing is a simple one that picks out a single random post from your site, pulls the featured image, and displays it on the sidebar.
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May 19, 2011
One of the coolest things about being an independent journalist is that you’re almost always on top of current events within your field. On the flip side, there’s also a lot of demand on you to get the latest information and news out on the web before anyone else does. One approach that I’ve seen [...]
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May 19, 2011
If you own a blog, what can you do to make sure that your visitors read as many posts as possible? One trick is to display your posts at the top of your main page, so they will be instantly accessible. One of the tools that you can use to do this is Wibbitz, a web service that will help you feature the latest contents of your blog as an interactive slideshow.
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May 13, 2011
Featured Images were introduced into Wordpress in version 2.9, and it enables you to easily display an image that's associated with your blog post in various parts of your theme. Today I'd like to show you how to make use of featured images in your blog. I'll show you how to add and assign the image to your post as well as the code you'll need.
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May 12, 2011
For some time now, I've been trying to develop a very fast and easy way to create a virtual web server (basically a local web server), on my portable hard drive. Not just one though. I wanted to have the ability to set up multiple web servers that I could just configure as my localhost web server with the click of a button.
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May 6, 2011
Last time we talked about Wordpress backups, I showed you how incredibly easy it was to backup your entire database and files though SSH with only a few commands. This time, I'm going to show how to automate those commands, giving you fresh backups of your entire site every week, with very little effort.
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April 24, 2011
CloudFlare is an intriguing start-up from the creators of Project Honey Pot that claims to protect your website from spammers, bots and other evil web monsters - as well as speed up your site somewhat by caching certain page requests. It's free, setup is relatively painless, and who can say no to free security protection?
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April 15, 2011
This week I'll be a taking a look at a superior alternative to the often praised All-In-One SEO; a plugin that gives you the power of a Wordpress publishing system but allows you to output static HTML files for hosts that don't support PHP; as well as showing you how to make sense of some of the template files contained in your theme directory.
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April 10, 2011
Backing up your website or blog can be an expensive and arduous task, requiring a variety of plugins, or additional plans from your hosting provider - but it needn't be really. If you have SSH access to your website host (generally you would need at least a virtual private server for this), then it's easy to backup, restore and migrate your entire website with only a few commands.
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April 8, 2011
A while ago I talked about the benefits of installing the W3TC plugin on your Wordpress blog in order to speed it up with various caching, but some readers were understandably a little wary about the plugin without some sort of tutorial to help them. Luckily, the defaults will work well for 90% of us. Follow the guide, and even with some basic settings you're going to see some form of speed improvement.
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April 7, 2011
More and more people who access the Internet are doing so from an iPad or another tablet. So if you have an online presence, it would be a good idea to adjust the interface of your site to be tablet friendly. Automattic has realized this and have added a feature that will optimize its 18 million blogs for tablet viewing.
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March 31, 2011
Nobody would argue that WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms today. But surprisingly, not many people aware that there are actually two kinds of WordPresses out there: the dot-com and the dot-org version. To narrow the gap between these two versions, the folks at WordPress released Jetpack, a set of cool tools that previously available only for the dot-com version.
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March 20, 2011
I wrote a few weeks ago about how Google was changing search results dramatically by including more and more semantic information – or what Google likes to refer to as Rich Snippets. Most recently, this was in the form of recipe meta-data, such as ingredients or cooking time. If you’re running a WordPress blog based [...]
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