Archive for May, 2008

Happy B-Day Wordpress!

Well today is the fifth birthday of popular blogging platform, Wordpress. It seems like it was only yesterday that I learned about Wordpress and all its wonders.
I started out on Blogger with a stupid little blog that was a mishmash of everything and anything. I slowly learned more about the blogging world and then Chris [...]

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Seo Talk Forums

SEO is a huge part on any website even blogging. If you want to talk with people and see whats working and not working for them check out this great new community where you can better your online skills, share your ideas with a receptive audience and enjoy friendly chat in a relaxed environment.
SEO Talk [...]

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Popularity Plugin Fix

A lot of people have been having trouble activating Alex Kings Popular Posts plugin when using Wordpress 2.5 and up. There are two simple changes that can fix this.
REMEMBER: BACKUPS ARE YOUR BEST FRIENDS! also this may only work if you have the blog installed on the root or on a subdomain rather then yoursite.com/blog

The [...]

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Correcting the “Http Error” when uploading pix

If you’re having problems you can either install a no flash plugin but why not have your wordpress installation working the way it is supposed to?
Download your .htaccess file and look for the part that says “END Wordpress”. It is circled in red in this screenshot:

Paste this code after that line
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
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Get kick-ass banner ads

PHOTOSHOP-ILLITERATE
Banner ads are one of the main ways that any websites advertising campaigns consist of. There are those of us who can create these designs by ourselves and then there are the people who are Photoshop-Illiterate. The latter would need to be either willing to create a crappy image for themselves, learn about it [...]

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Hello Entrecard! Contest

CONTEST! WEEE!
To celebrate the opening of this blog I have pooled all the entrecard credits that I have made with my other blogs into this account and will be giving the prize away to one lucky winner! I have slaved over collecting Entrecredits as well to make a whopping prize of 10, 000 EC! Don’t [...]

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New Entrecard Features

While reading the Entrecard blog today I read the post about the new feature added in Entrecard and the giveaway that they have…
The Official Entrecard E-Book!
Have you ever wondered what you could do to maximize your Entrecard potential and exposure? No worries because they have released an E-Book which you can get here. This E-Book [...]

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Its a Cowpetition!

There is one crazy cowpetition happening at John Cows website. And I am throwing in my hat for the win! I hope John Cow wins this thing because he’ll be donating the winnings to charity and I hope that I can win a little prize. The prize list is so immense that I would be [...]

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Entrecard

A great resource for any blogger-whether you’re using wordpress or not is Entrecard. It is basically an Internet business card and it is awesome for networking. With my other blogs I have met so many awesome bloggers and came across so many opportunities that I otherwise would never have known about.
I’d recommend designing your own [...]

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No longer asking permission and adiis 2-for-1 sale

It just hit me that other wordpress galleries don’t ask for permission to highlight and recommend wordpress themes. So why should I? It’s free advertising for wordpress theme creators and it isn’t like I’ll be offering their themes for download through my own blog or modifying it. A couple of the designers I contacted said [...]

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