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Control Membership Sites with Magic Members for WordPress
Reviews, WordPress Plugins One way that you can make money from a blog is to sell advertising. You can insert AdSense ad units and promote affiliate programs, for example. Another way that you can make money blogging is to offer premium content at a price. This is what is known as a membership site. You could go through the trouble of coding such a site yourself, but it is probably much easier to use a WordPress-based blog and install the Magic Members premium WordPress ...
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WordPress Themes As I’m sure you all know, WordPress 3.0 is just around the corner. In fact, two beta versions have been released already, so it won’t be too long before a stable version of everyones favourite blogging platform has been released. There are some great new features in WordPress 3 including WordPress Multi User integration, additional post types, a new custom menu system, custom taxonomies, background and header image control in the ...
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WordPress Themes Many people will tell you that, when it comes to the Internet, quality is king. If you don’t have good content that is valuable to your site visitor in some way, it’s unlikely that they’ll come to visit you again. That’s why it is very important to pay attention to how you are presenting this content too. WordPress is a very powerful content management system and you have many options when it comes to its overall ...
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Blogging, Social Networking, WordPress, WordPress Plugins With Facebook becoming more integrated in the sites that we use every day. And the debate about whether that is good or bad can be saved for another post. This post is to focus on how you can promote your blog in a new way by adding a Facebook “Like” button to your blog posts. The other Day Chris Brogan tweeted that he was installing the SNV Facebook Like plug-in by Mitch Canter of StudioNashVegas. I follow Chris on Twitter so I ...
Continue readingPost Idea+ Plugin: Simple Idea Tracking
WordPress, WordPress Plugins It’s a situation nearly every blogger has faced. You come up with a great idea for a new post, perhaps while writing a different one, and you rush to jot it down. However, inevitably, you lose the paper or toss the note in the trash on accident, only to lose the idea forever. Others, myself included, have resulted to hammering out a quick post with just the title and marking that as an idea with a promise to come back to it later. However, ...
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Domain Names & Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design You hear all kinds of excuses to why someone wont’ get into blogging. Some people say that they have nothing interesting to say. Others say that they don’t have the time. Others still say that they are intimidated by the terminology and technology. Let’s face it. Most of us aren’t coding experts and, for some, even the “simple” installation of WordPress can be quite daunting. Thankfully, there are services out ...
Continue readingIt All Went to Hell, Now What?
Blogging, WordPress From Drop Box April 21, 2010 5:34pm my blogging world went to help. My blogs were hacked. Every single .PHP file I had was rewritten with malicious code which made my blogs dangerous places to visit. Some of my blogs have yet to be recovered because all of my focus was on my main blog BenSpark.com. I think the reason that my blog was hacked easily was for a few reasons. Why did this happen to my blogs? I was reading a post that explains a bit ...
Continue readingRating Plugin Encourages Reader Participation
Design & Coding, WordPress Plugins The great thing about blogging is that you have the opportunity to express your opinion or provide useful information, but this can also solicit a huge response from the online community too. They are helping you generate even more content for your blog in the form of comments and the like. Continuing along this similar line of thought is the Rating Plugin. In short, it allows you to create an unlimited number of micro-posts inside blog posts. ...
Continue readingBackup and Protect your WordPress Blog with blogVault
WordPress, WordPress Plugins Have you ever spent a year or even months working on and maintaining a blog just to lose it one day due to an awful catastrophe? I have and it’s not a good feeling. If only I’d use a tool like blogVault, then I wouldn’t have lost half of my posts nor would I of had to start all over. Even if you have never suffered a major blog loss, it’s still a great idea to use a service like this just in case you do suffer from a ...
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WordPress Plugins Along with opening up the web to the average Joe, blogging has also opened up better opportunities for these writers to interact with their readers. Comments on blogs are very important, not only for the interesting conversations that ensue, but also for the SEO and marketing purposes of the blogger. What are you doing to encourage comments on your blog? A new WordPress plug-in was developed recently called Standout Comments. It is a joint ...
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