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Microsoft Word and WordPress: A Tense Friendship

July 13, 2010
wordpress and microsoft word

I have been contacted by people numerous times when their blogs were “broken” and they needed it fixed.  There have been a variety of reasons behind the damage, but one common cause I’ve seen is through the misuse of Microsoft Word. Like many other people, I do a lot of my writing in MS Word.  [...]

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The Universal Video WordPress Plugin Is Updated

June 23, 2010
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I did a small update to the Universal Video plugin this afternoon.  Not a lot was changed in this release, but a requested feature has been included. Now that iOS has been updated to 4, it should be safe to include poster images with HTML5 video and not prevent playback on devices such as the [...]

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Advice To New Bloggers

June 21, 2010
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Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on Emily Grosvenor’s class on Beginning Blogging.  Emily is a talented writer who runs a great blog at Desperately Seeking Salem, so I knew she would do a bang up job guiding others into the rewarding and frustrating world of blogging. A point that often comes [...]

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Fixing The Thesis Custom File Editor In WordPress 3.0

June 19, 2010
Wordpress and Thesis

If you are a WordPress user who also happens to use the Thesis theme, chances are you may have run into a snag if you upgraded to WordPress 3.0.  Specifically, I’m referring to the inability to access the “Custom File Editor” of Thesis that happens after you upgrade. The error message that appears on your [...]

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New WordPress Plugin For Embedding HTML5 Video

June 1, 2010

In case you haven’t heard, I released a plugin for easily embedding HTML5 video in WordPress blogs.  I think you’ll find that adding video to your blog will be super easy with the aid of this plugin, and it will probably encourage you to use video more often. HTML5 video is a little different than [...]

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Building an Adsense Site on WordPress: Keyword Research

May 4, 2010
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The following information uses a newly created Adsense site I created on Burkitt lymphoma as an example. While the information is sound, your mileage may vary. Building a website that is designed to bring in revenue from the Adsense ads you place on it can be a worthwhile project that can bring you a seemingly [...]

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Speed Up WordPress Without Using A Cache Plugin

March 24, 2010
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Today I decided to try something different with this blog. I decided to remove the WP Super Cache plugin and just try server compression instead.  And so far I am very pleased with the results. I tend to use the caching plugin on any WordPress site I set up.  I don’t always do this because [...]

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New WordPress Hack On The Loose

February 3, 2010
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I received an email from someone this morning asking me to correct a problem on their WordPress site.  This in of itself is not unusual, but what I found when I went to their site was unusual.  In fact, it was cause for alarm. The design issue was easy enough to fix, but I received [...]

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Backup Your WordPress Blog Or Pay The Price Later

January 25, 2010
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Being the resident computer expert in the family, I found myself over at my father-in-law’s house yesterday with the purpose of ridding his home PC from the icy cold grip of a few computer viruses.  What I had hoped would be a quick process turned into a lengthy and frustrating procedure that lasted until the [...]

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5 Quick Tweaks To Improve Your WordPress Blog

December 18, 2009
wordpress

WordPress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement.  Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability. Boost your page serving speed You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of [...]

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