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WordPress Lockdown! Part 1 – Renaming the admin account

February 9, 2010
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available today. However, it’s very popularity can work against it – due to the fact that many people install WordPress but don’t know how to properly lock it down, it’s a prime target for hackers who want to exploit it. Making your WordPress blog nice and [...]

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5 WordPress Plugins You Shouldn’t Do Without

February 8, 2010
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One of the biggest advantages of using self-hosted WordPress for your blog is its extensibility with plugins. There’s hundreds (if not thousands) of different plugins you can install into your WordPress installation to provide additional features ranging from social media integration to post ratings to weather-forecast widgets. It’s easy to go overboard with plugins (which can be [...]

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Zemanta

January 19, 2010

While poking around a bit today on the Lijit site, I came across a promo for a service/site called Zemanta. Described as a tool to “help you to blog smarter by suggesting related content, in real-time, for what you’re writing,” Zemanta seemed like something I wanted to check out.
Zemanta is a free service. It is [...]

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Wednesday Web Wanderings – Thesis Edition

December 23, 2009
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As I mentioned before, I’ve recently switching my blog over to using the super-mergatroid-flexible Wordpress theme of Thesis. And no, I didn’t just do it because Doniree did. Well, maybe.
Today I am dusting off the Web Wanderings to provide you with some cool links that are Thesis-related. Maybe you already are using Thesis and want [...]

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Some housekeeping

December 15, 2009

You might notice things look a little different around here. I’m giving my blog a much-needed facelift. Granted, I’m not done yet, but I’m just setting the stage for some new fancy designs that are on their way (with the assistance of the amazingly awesome @ashleymarie6).
New theme
First major overhaul item was switching to the Thesis [...]

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All in One SEO Pack

December 5, 2009

Today we’re going to be talking about a nifty plugin for Wordpress called All In One SEO Pack. It has some useful SEO features, which I’ll explain in a minute, but the main thing I’ve found to be indispensable about it is the ease of controlling the appearance of a link when it is shared [...]

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