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Do we need an alternative to WordPress?

Those of you who read BloggingTips regularly will know that I a huge fan of WordPress. I’m a bit of a WordPress fanatic. In fact, I’d go as far as saying I’m a bit of a snob about it because I no longer even consider any other script when starting …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 19th, 2010 and filed under WordPress
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Simple Link Cloaker for WordPress

From a marketing point of view, it’s important to cloak your links. Cloaking links is a little deceiving in some ways as the URL is hiding the true destination of the link. Unfortunately, many spammers use this technique to mislead visitors into where they are going. Though there are good reasons why legitimate bloggers and marketers use cloaking.

The most obvious one …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 12th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Theme Forest Make Amends

Last week I spoke about the problem I had with Theme Forest. Specifically, the theme I purchased wasn’t working correctly and neither the theme designer nor Envato support were answering my emails.

Thankfully, the issue has now been resolved. Chris Wallace was away for a few weeks so wasn’t able to reply to customers. He has posted an updated zip file …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 11th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Themes
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Choosing a Wordpress backup plugin that is right for you

Do you backup your blogs? If not, you should! All the efforts you put into writing, advertising, marketing and administrating your blog can go to waste if appropriate reservation measures are not taken in time. Even though many hosting companies make backups of your account, it is still a must to have your own ones. As you never know when a disastrous failure can take place, having several restoration points is reasonable.

There …

Written by Sergey Smirnov from Site Valley Web Hosting Blog
Posted on January 8th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Terrible Support From Theme Forest

Theme Forest is a theme marketplace which sells templates for WordPress, Joomla and standard CSS websites. There are hundreds of templates within the store. The website is owned by Envato, who run several similar graphic stores.

Unlike most other WordPress theme stores, ThemeForest do not actually design the themes themselves. Instead, they take a commission for allowing designers to sell their …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 8th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Themes
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WordPress 2.9.1 Released

WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday to address some bugs which were in 2.9. In the announcement post Ryan Boren states that the scheduling bug has been resolved in 2.9 however the scheduled post I had set after I had upgraded missed it’s schedule so I had to install the Semiologic bug fix again. WordPress is a strange creature sometimes …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 5th, 2010 and filed under WordPress
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How to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?

After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to the back of my head until …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 5th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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