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Wordpress

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I saw this interesting poll from this article:  Poll – Do you moderate blog comments?.  Here were the current results from Denise’s poll:

96 total votes
18% (17 votes) said they do not moderate comments
79% (76 votes) said they do moderate comments
3% (3 votes) have no idea what the heck we’re [...]


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One of the fun things we always do when starting a new Wordpress blog is finding great plugins to add more features.  What many people should do before adding plugins is to change a few default settings from your dashboard.  Many of you have blogs for months or even [...]


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Add Twitter Links in Your Blog’s Comment Area
Another way to encourage readers to leave comments on your blog is to add their twitter link to the comment area.  Adding another custom field to post your Twitter link will increase your followers list.  Writing a useful comment will increase the likelihood of them following you, so [...]


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CommentLuv and KeywordLuv
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and what better way to show love to your readers than with the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugin for Wordpress.  These plugins will enhance the commenting experience on your post and it will definitely give your readers a little nudge to leave some comments.  [...]


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Having pings to your site is great to notify you that someone has sent a pingback of your blog post.  Here’s what made it easier for me to understand  the difference between a ping and pingback:

Pingbacks – Person A links up to Person B by adding a link to Person B’s post.  A pingback will [...]


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Building a community around your new blog will take some time and hard work.  My best advice to give you is not to get discourage if you don’t get a lot of people commenting on your post.  As your blog matures and get more online exposure, you’ll have more people discovering your site.  Although content [...]


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The Thesis Theme for Wordpress is highly customizable and there are always those tutorials that people are always looking to do on their blog.  A great post from Matt Flies blog labeled 3 Easy and Highly Requested Thesis Theme Tutorials.   Here’s my favorite of the 3 tutorials:

1. Better Backgrounds for Author Replies in Comments
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For those of you new to Wordpress or blogging for that matter, pinging is simply telling the blog directories, etc.  that a new post has been submitted on your blog.  This helps expose your content to users on these sights and will potentially ping them back to your site!  Here’s another great explanation from a [...]


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Wordpress WP-DBManager plugin lets your backup AND restore your blog database in your dashboard.


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Here’s another great Wordpress plugin you should use if you want to easily cloak your affiliate links on your blog.   With the Simple Link Cloaker plugin, you can  easily manage your cloaked affiliate links on your plugins page of your Wordpress dashboard.  The reason why this plugin is so valuable is because you of [...]


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