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Blogging has been around since the late 1990s and has become one of the most popular mediums for people to express their thoughts, share information, and generate income. If you’re thinking of starting a blog of your own, it’s important to understand the steps needed to be successful....
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Update (August 10th, 2014): Facebook recently announced a change to their policies, which makes incentivised sharing/liking against their rules. This means that using the following plugins to encourage people to like your page on Facebook to unlock content could get you into trouble once the policy...
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The second major release of WordPress is due within the next few weeks. Two beta releases have been released thus far, which have allowed me to get a preview of what we can expect when the stable version of released. If you are expecting ground breaking new features in WordPress 4.0, you are going...
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The Robots Exclusion Standard was developed in 1994 so that website owners can advise search engines how to crawl your website. It works in a similar way as the robots meta tag which I discussed in great length recently. The main difference being that the robots.txt file will stop search engines...
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Pricing your design services is a dilemma that all web designers face. It can be very difficult to put a monetary value on your time and your experience. Whether you like this aspect of designing or not, it is something you need to do if you are a freelancer or if you operate a web design...
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Search engine spiders will crawl your whole website to cache your website’s pages for their index. In general, most website owners are happy for search engines to crawl and index any page they want; however there are situations where you would not want pages to be indexed. For example, if you...
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Landing pages are used by marketers to capture leads (i.e. email addresses) or as a click through so that traffic is funneled to another page (these are known as squeeze pages). They can also be used to sell a product directly. In the world of internet marketing, landing pages can be considered to...
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Hundreds of thousands of people make a living from the WordPress platform. This includes writers, affiliate marketers, localized website designers, theme developers, plugin developers, and more. There are a number of ways that theme and plugin developers can make a living. One is to develop custom...
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I have spoke many times about the benefits of having a test WordPress website in order to test plugins and try out changes to your WordPress theme. My test WordPress website is installed in a subdirectory of a domain I own. This is the most practical solution for me as I use a 27″ iMac, and a...
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Post types are of the main reasons that developers can extend WordPress in so many wonderful ways. The core version of WordPress comes packaged with five post types: Post, page, attachment, revision, and navigation menu. Posts and pages are the main post types that we refer to as they are used to...
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WordPress is famed for its versatility. With tens of thousands of themes and plugins available online, you can build a feature rich website using WordPress with no knowledge of coding. Of course, if you want to use themes and plugins to build your website, you are restricted to what solutions are...
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WordPress introduced their multisite feature back in 2010 in WordPress 3.0. It replaced the older WordPress MU system. Once the feature is activated on your website, multiple websites can be created from the same WordPress installation. Essentially, one set of WordPress core files powers many...
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