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Video: How to Install a WordPress Blog Fast

Share This video shows you how to install WordPress fast on your website using Fanastico in Cpanel. It’s the quickest and easiest way to install WP that I know of. I am using Hostgator to demonstrate this.. they offer cpanel and fantastico with their hosting plants. And I’m sick right now so sorry for how [...]

Video: How to Embed and Resize Screenr Screencasts in WordPress

Share Quick video on how to embed screenr screencasts into wordpress. It’s super simple and fun!

Business WordPress Themes

Share When it comes down to using wordpress to power your business website there are not a ton of themes out there that actually make your site look like a website.. and not a blog. Fortunately I’ve come across these themes that actually do a great job at making your wordpress powered site look like [...]

Some tips from Matt Cutts about using WordPress and ranking higher in Google

Share Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the good and the bad of WordPress as seen through the eyes of Google, including basics on how Google search works and how you can boost your blog’s results in Google searches.

New Showcase Photo WordPress Theme Released

Share Felix over at Richwp.com has come up with yet another great new wordpress theme called Showcase (Photo). This theme is exactly that… a wordpress theme to showcase your photos/designs/products etc. What’s unique about Felix’s themes are that they are clean and minimalistic meaning that the focus goes to the content (your images) and that’s [...]

Premium WordPress Themes

Share If you’ve been blogging for awhile or looking to start up a more professional blog for your business then ultimately you’ll want to invest in a premium blog theme. Premium blog themes offer benefits that free themes do not such as support, admin control panel options, advanced ad features, etc. Since I am a [...]

WordPress Showcase Theme

Share Are there too many Showcase sites on the web now that are powered by WordPress? Some people think so, but why just let a few people have all the fun right?! Start your own showcase website and start building a content filled website that is centered around a smaller niche… something you like. Or [...]

Portfolio WordPress Themes

Share Listed below are 12 of the most popular portfolio wordpress themes out of 52 listed over at themeforest. Some of these themes are as cheap as $20. The majority of them contain some pretty cool javascript effects. I’m still amazed at some of these themes. The quality of design is pretty outstanding compared to [...]

New Photography WordPress Theme Release

Share New Photo Nexus Theme (NEW) Photo Nexus wordpress gallery is a 2 column , 2 color variation ( Bright and Dark) theme. This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Art work or Designs. The theme features modern yet minimalistic style [...]

WordPress Real Estate Themes

Share Looking for a professional wordpress real estate theme? I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time, have seen almost every theme around and have gone through the trouble of listing the top real estate wordpress themes here for you. Why you ask? Well it’s just one of the things I do as a [...]

Adding a Google Calendar to WordPress

Share NOTE: This post is kinda old. You might want to check out this WP plugin for setting up a calendar on your site. You can easily add a Google calendar to your wordpress blog using this handy plugin. All you have to do is download the plugin, add it to your wordpress plugins folder [...]

Simple Flash Image Gallery

Share This is probably the easiest method for displaying an image gallery on your site or blog. It takes about a minute or two to set up. Now you can display your flickr photos in style. To build your own go here to the PictoBrowser builder page.

WordPress Themes For Photographers

Share Looking for the perfect wordpress theme to display your photographs? Are you looking for a more professional photography website? Or maybe just a photo blogger? If you’re a photographer or artist and you want to use wordpress to run your site there are some themes available that focus on photography you can use. WordPress [...]

Embed Issuu Into a WordPress Post or Page

Share Want to embed an Issuu publication into your wordpress blog but can’t seem to get the embed code working? Issuu offers many options for embedding your publication online but they don’t offer a wordpress code snipet or widget… as of yet.I got the above publication embedded into this post [...]

Best WordPress SEO Theme

Share Are you looking for the best wordpress theme for SEO out of the box? Since you’re looking for a (SEO) search engine optimized wordpress theme I’d thought I’d give a rave review of what I think is not only the best wordpress theme ever designed, but one that is SEO friendly and highly customizable. [...]

Embed Slideshow Pro in WordPress

Share Would you like to embed Slideshow Pro into WordPress? The easiest method for doing this is using Kimili’s Flash Embed plugin for wordpress. It will allow you to either post your Slideshow Pro gallery into a post, page or into the actual layout of your theme ie. in your header.php file. I tried embedding [...]

New WordPress 2.6 Features

Share WordPress 2.6 is out and there are some cool new features available that you might be interested in. Check out the video: click here. Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging Theme Previews: See it before your audience does Here [...]

I dofollow, conditionally

Share Last July I added the dofollow to my blog (or more correctly removed the nofollow tag) but soon found people abusing it and I quickly turned nofollow back on. Joining the “dofollow” movement for awhile I did certainly see an increase in comments but didn’t want to put up with moderating every comment because [...]

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