July 2010

Two Cool New Plugins

July 26, 2010

Late last week I was approached by Seth Shoultes about a new plugin he made for E-Junkie.  The plugin allows a wordpress user to quickly and easily add an E-Junkie shopping cart to their website.  I thought the plugin was really cool and helpful and figured you guys might want to know about it. Then [...]

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What is a Child Theme in WordPress?

July 15, 2010

As part of our 30 Days of WordPress Par-Tay, we are moving right along to the next question by Christina.  Christina’s question about Child Themes is a great one, specifically with the recent flare-up of interest in proprietary themes in the WordPress Community. Christina asks: Some premium WordPress themes use child themes, and some just seem to [...]

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Check out MarketingExperiments.com

July 9, 2010

In deciding what direction to take WordPress Landing Pages and how to help the folks out that are members of that community, I try to stay on top of developments in the online marketing world.  But there is so much hype and crap out there that sifting through it can be very tough.  However, I’ve [...]

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How to add a Hacker News Upvote widget to your WordPress Site

July 7, 2010

First of all, I’d like to thank Ryan W. for his help in showing me how to do this.  Considering he has had articles on the front page of HN for the last two days in a row, I’m thinking this little widget helps get those HN upvotes ‘on the reg’. Nothing will help get [...]

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How to Use WordPress for an eCommerce Store

July 6, 2010

Next up in our 30 Days of WordPress world series, we have Kai asking about using WordPress for an ecommerce store. Kai’s Question I’m curious about using WordPress as an e-commerce store. Are there e-commerce plugins out there other than WP e-Commerce? Outside of SEO and analytics, what areas do you recommend focusing on for [...]

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How to Customize Your WordPress Installation Package

July 2, 2010

For the 3rd answer in my 30 Days of WordPress extravaganza, we are taking a look at Robert’s question about customizing your WordPress installation package at the time of installation. Robert Asks How can I customize the blogs created by WordPress 3.0 so that when they install they have the theme, plugins and settings all [...]

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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

July 1, 2010

Wondering how to speed up your WordPress-powered website?  As part of our 30 Days of WordPress fiesta, we are taking a look at Somone’s question about how to speed up her site. From Somone: Once a self-hosted WordPress site gets a decent amount of traffic, the use of plugins and other scripts that run to [...]

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