Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah on November 30, 2008

Last week I explained about two of the three enhancements available in WordPress 2.7. This week it’s all about the new comment options.

Before I continue however, there seemed to be some confusion last week from a comment or two. These changes are enhancements. Your existing themes will still work with WordPress 2.7, you will just not get the benefits or be able to use some of the new features until these changes are made. So don’t suddenly think your site is going to break or stop working when you upgrade to 2.7!

New…

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune on November 29, 2008

Are you one among the many number of people who neglect article marketing only because it takes time? Do you sit for more than 30 minutes to write articles that you are submitting to article directories?

If you answered yes to the above questions, continue reading the post. You should neither neglect article marketing nor spend hours writing one single article. The reason why you should not spend a lot time for writing articles is that the main purpose of the article is to rank well in search engines, get back links…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on November 28, 2008

Blogging Tips Forum CompetitionToday is the end of our 7 week long Forum Competition. I hope you have all enjoyed it :)

In addition to cash prizes at the end of the competition, forum members also picked up several great prizes over 7 weeks. Therefore, before moving on, I would like to give a huge thank you to all our forum sponsors. Much appreciated guys :)

Cash Prize Results

At 12pm ET today (5pm UK time) I disabled the credits system. I then temporarily closed the forum…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on November 28, 2008

Yaro Starak confessed in his Blog Blazers interview that he rarely reads books and instead prefers to study ebooks and audio from experts. I have always encouraged BloggingTips readers to subscribe to good blogs within their niche but it really depends on what you are blogging about.

For example, there is no need to subscribe to any blogs if you’re just posting on your personal blog but if you run a video games blog you should pay attention to the latest gaming news from some of the more popular blogs. It’s not all…

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Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah on November 27, 2008

Last week I briefly touched on a few selector properties when styling hyperlinks. I’m going to start to go into more properties. These properties can be used on any selector (although not every property will necessarily have an effect on some selectors).

CSS Selectors

Just to recap, a selector is the tag, id or class you’re targeting eg.

h1 { ... }
#idname { ... }
.classname { ... }

and multiple selectors can be used, using a comma to separate them

h1, #idname { ... }

or you can target a selector more…

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Written by CT Moore from Share Results on November 27, 2008

Whether you just want to get your personal brand out there or make money as an affiliate blogger, you’re going to want to attract organic traffic. After all, new visitors means a wider audience and/or more potential buyers. If you’re using Wordpress on your own domain, however, there’s a very good reason to make sure that you have the most up-to-date version.

One of the things that Google takes into consideration when determining your PageRank is how secure your site is for users to use. For example, if your site uploads spyware or…

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