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Matt Mullenweg’s Blog Makes You Smile
Blogging, Reader Blog Critique, WordPress WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s primary blog has many instances which will make you smile. With my below par internet connection, it takes a bit of time for Matt’s blog to load (Matt himself says the site’s spring design is for the high-bandwidth and the open-minded) but the visit is worth it. This post enumerates some interesting instances (with snapshots taken on 13 February 2010) on Matt’s PR 8 blog. The header ...
Continue readingColorful Premium Themes from Wobzy
Reviews, WordPress Themes If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’ll want your WordPress blog to feature an eye-catching and visually-appealing theme. There are many different templates out there on the Internet, but some of the most attractive are those offered by Wobzy.com. There is no shortage of style here. Browsing through the Library Unlike some other sites that may only feature one or two premium themes, Wobzy has quite the large collection of premium ...
Continue readingKidblogger Carl Ocab Offers Ultimate Blogging Theme
WordPress Themes One of the most successful bloggers on the Internet today also happens to be one of the youngest. Known widely as Kidblogger, Carl Ocab developed what he believes to be one of the most amazing WordPress themes too. The Ultimate Blogging Theme caters specifically to people aiming to blog as a profession, maximizing their advertising revenue while optimizing the site for search engines. According to Carl, the goal of the Ultimate Blogging Theme ...
Continue readingTake a Minute to Fix your TweetMeme, Now.
Blogger, WordPress Plugins TweetMeme is a hugely popular plug-in because it is so easy to use. It is easy for you to install and easy for your readers to use to retweet your posts. It may be too easy because so many people just install it and never look at the options available to them. Here is the Issue When you simply install TweetMeme and you don’t get into the settings then every RT will show up as “RT @tweetmeme… your blog post and link“. So, ...
Continue readingCustomize Your WordPress Blog with Thesis Theme
WordPress Themes WordPress continues to be one of the most popular blogging platforms, but you don’t want your blog to look like everyone else’s. To aid you in your search for the right theme, we’re kicking off a new series of posts here on Blogging Tips that will highlight some of the best WordPress templates on the ‘net. The first in this series is Thesis Theme. The default installation of Thesis Theme has a simple navigation bar along ...
Continue readingDo we need an alternative to WordPress?
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 a new blog. And 99% of the time WordPress is the script I use for content management for static sites too. I am obviously aware of other blogging platforms such as Expression Engine, ...
Continue readingSimple Link Cloaker for WordPress
WordPress Plugins 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 being presentation. The link www.bloggingtips.com/go/websitename looks ...
Continue readingTheme Forest Make Amends
WordPress Themes 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 on Theme Forest. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work. Though at the very ...
Continue readingChoosing a WordPress backup plugin that is right for you
WordPress Plugins 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 are numerous ...
Continue readingTerrible Support From Theme Forest
WordPress Themes 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 themes to a large audience. Because of this, there ...
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